Whether carved in stone or wood, printed onto a page, beat out by a mimetic or rhythmic body, or humming in the mind, poems are meant to engrave and adhere. Ancient Greek poetry exhibits a ...

When Yannis Ritsos passed away on November 11, 1990, the world of poetry lost one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

Michalis Ganas, one of the most significant poets of recent years, has died at 80. Michalis Ganas, born on November 8, 1944, in Tsamantas, Thesprotia, was a distinguished Greek poet and lyricist. He ...

Forget modern scientific equipment, it turns out the best way to find long-lost shipwrecks is by reciting Ancient Greek ...

Although Greek and Latin poetry from late antiquity each poses similar questions and problems, a real dialogue between scholars on both sides is even now conspicuously absent. A lack of evidence ...

This is the title of the bilingual in Greek and English collaboration of poetry and art. The painter is Michael Winters and the poet is Politimi Tataraki. Ms Tataraki talks to SBS Greek Poems and ...

Sappho's 'Midnight Poem' describes a star cluster known as the Pleiades having set at around midnight, when supposedly observed by her from the Greek island of Lesbos. "Estimations had been made ...