Lyre Player and Bird Fresco from the Throne Room of Nestor's palace in Pylos dated LH IIIB (about 1300 BCE). The story of Orpheus, like...

From the beginning the Greeks’ poetry was intended to be sung or recited. The subject was myth—part legend, part folktale, part religious...

Marble hoplite statue, thought to be Leonidas, 5th c. BCE, Archæological Museum of Sparta. Leonidas – meaning Lion Like - is a name that...