Today, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred properties date back millennia.

Amphion and Zethus, the ancient greek builders of Thebes' walls, combined music and strength to achieve their goal.

A Greek inscription carved into a Roman-era theater seat in Turkey's Apollonia reveals the name of a female priestess.

Professor Edith Hall, from our department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded the 2024 International Hellenic ...

It’s an interaction familiar to any student enrolled in LATN 101 through Loyola’s Department of Classical Studies. Offered ...

From the first whispers of Greek mythology to the philosophical writings that shaped the Western mind, one belief remained ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The first telegraph wasn’t really the first. In the fourth century B.C.E., Tacitus, a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, invented the hydraulic telegraph. It ...

Diogenes (412 BC- 323 BC) was a Greek philosopher like no other. One of the founders of the cynic philosophy, Diogenes believed that people should live simple lives that reject all natural desires for ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house: Earthquake, most dread of all shocks … ...

As families and public schools grapple with the ongoing impacts of technology and screens on kids, one academic program in Fairhaven is sending students back in time. In a small office in McKenzie ...

President Trump's celebration of Jimmy Kimmel's (now brief) and Stephen Colbert's (still happening) removal from the air — along with his calls for canceling other late-night comedians — may feel very ...