THE subject which I have chosen for to-day’s lecture might seem to you rather remote from the topic of English literature, at least, from the topic of English literature as taught in Japan. Here the ...

A chance inquiry by an unidentified collector has led to a spectacular literary discovery: Parts of two previously unknown poems by Sappho, the great Greek poetess of the 7th Century B.C. One of the ...

Ancient Greece is known for many things, but how many of us know that there were a select few women who became exceptional ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus. An ...

A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her ascending to the stars. Based on the lettering styles and ...

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POEMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY, translated by Dudley Fitts, New Directions, 141 pages, Hardcover--$3.00, Paper--$1.00 The 141 poems included in this small book are almost entirely reissues of work ...

An ancient Greek poem praising the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero has been discovered in an Ancient Egyptian town. The poem treats Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the cruel leader, as a goddess - ...

During the recent excavation of a 1st-century CE Thracian grave in Bulgaria, archaeologists discovered something totally unexpected: a clay vessel inscribed with Greek characters. The writing appeared ...