The Etruscans were reputed to be tenacious pirates. Is this reputation deserved? The answer requires a look at the ancient sources.

Were ancient figures all that they were cracked up to be? A brief look at the historiography of Epaminondas should make us wary of accepting everything we read in our sources.

For many people, Athena is an icon for strong women. But she also has a dark side, as shown in an encounter with Aphrodite.

The stories of the ancient Greeks are a mess, as this look at (the various people called) Pallas demonstrates. We should embrace the chaos.

Many ancient Greek and Roman epics were left either unfinished or had enough loose strings to warrant continuation by later writers.

Recent studies, like the edited volume under review, examine the far-reaching trade networks that existed in the Indian Ocean.

Stories about people who run away usually focus on their adventures. But Lucian provides us with a view from the home front when a young person takes an unexpected trip.

Stories from antiquity have inspired later writers for many hundreds of years. For one of the hundred tales in the Decameron, Boccaccio looked to the ancient novelist Apuleius for inspiration.

The Homeric Hymns give us some of our earliest information about Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine and revelry.

The “Homeric Hymns” are a collection of ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. Let’s read Hymn 8, dedicated to Ares.