San Diego’s Globe Theatre, known largely for Shakespearean productions, is seeking to raise $2.5 million to create an Institute for Classical Theatre, which would bring ancient dramas to its stages ...

When we study William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth in Indian schools with so much enthusiasm, why can’t we study Indian classics with the same gusto? That was the question that set off Rohan ...

LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California classics professor Brandon Bourgeois has translated Homer’s Greek classic, "The Iliad," for students in the 21st century. Bourgeois rapped the epic poem ...

Professor Michael Scott wants to dispense with one of the greatest misnomers about the study of the ancient world – that it is a subject which is no longer relevant. “There is a misconception that ...

Once upon a time, classics was viewed by the Western world as the strongest educational foundation, a portal to a civilized life and a high-level career. But even when I majored in Ancient Greek many ...

The traditional tales of Halloween – men transforming into werewolves under a bright moon, inhabitants of a creepy old house driven insane by the ghost that haunts it – were also told two millennia ...