Homer

The summer season is slowly approaching and plans for some down time are starting to take shape. This is a perfect time to choose some classic Greek books or modern day favorites to keep us company while lying under...

It is common knowledge that the foundation of western society derives from ancient Greece and more specifically from scripts of the ancient Greek scientist and philosophers whose writings have survived more or less complete. Listed below are ten ancient...

Man’s desire to know what the future holds is nothing new or out of the ordinary. In ancient times, the need to know what is to come can be best exhibited by exploring methods in which the Greeks created...

Two neighboring cities in central Italy claim to be the mythological place cited by Homer where Odysseus fell in love with Circe. One is the  island of Ponza and the other, the Mount Circeo. Italian hotel keepers and restaurateurs are exploiting the...

Farmers in Greece name September Trygitis or Trigominas (meaning the month of harvest activities). Wine harvesting is one of the hardest and most strenuous activities, as it does not begin everywhere at the same time. The harvest depends on the...

Over the last few years, so many controversial things have been heard of poverty-stricken Greece since the economic crisis broke out. Rise in the unemployment rate, in social inequalities as the rich got somehow richer and the poor poorer....

The well-known theater director, Stathis Livathinos, undertook a very ambitious and highly difficult task of staging the complete Iliad of Homer. The director puts on stage, for the first time in the history of the theater, the ancient Greek...

Very few know that traditional Greek Easter dishes and their cooking methods were known to the ancient Greeks since five thousand years ago. When Ancient Greeks roasted lamb on a spit, as there were no brushes or lemons then, they...

The audience of the Piccolo Teatro welcomed with enthusiasm the performance Odyssey by Robert Wilson, at the premiere which was held on April 2, in the historic Italian theater of Milan. The Greek National Theater's production was presented in...

Warner Bros is gearing up to create a new version of Homer's "The Odyssey" that will set the Greek epic in space, according to Deadline. The movie studio has put James DiLapo in place to begin writing the script for...