The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

Researchers recover 42 lost pages from a 6th-century Greek codex, giving insights into the Letters of St. Paul and early ...

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...

Homer's Iliad tells the saga of the city of Troy and the mythical Trojan war that took place between the Greeks and the ...

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

A groundbreaking announcement for the recovery of lost ancient literature was recently made. Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The lost Trojan epics are but a tiny fraction of the lost works of Greek antiquity. To take Greek historians as ...