The splendid Sententiae Antiquae blog tackles the almost eternal question of Helen's appearance: What Helen actually looks like i...

From Simon Goldhill, Aeschylus: The Oresteia, 18-19 ( pdf of entire book here) : What of the audience of the drama? The spectators perhap...

From Simon Goldhill, Aeschylus: The Oresteia , Cambridge University Press, 1992: Burial in Greek society was traditionally a family affai...

The Catalogue of Women was a rich epic treatment of famous and heroic women of antiquity. Attributed to Hesiod, only fragments have come d...

The  Agamemnon  opens with the watchman's anticipation. He's on the look-out for the  sumbolon,  a prearranged fiery relay carrying...

. . . until times within living memory the exponents of Aeschylus were necessarily and properly engrossed by the preliminary difficulties ...

Leda and the Swan - Francesco Melzi, from a lost work of Leonardo da Vinci The Greek fascination with symmetrical pairs is latent in...

The Killing of Agamemnon Calyx krater, Dokimasia Painter , 460 BC: Here Agamemnon, diminished in stature and dripping wet, is trap...