When the Romans decided to invade Africa in 256 BC to bring an end to their war with Carthage, they supposedly encountered more than just Punic elephants and a cunning Spartan condottiero.

A lavishly produced television series that manages to make the story of the Trojan War utterly dull to watch. A waste of potential.

Odysseus’ performs many ill-deeds on his twenty-year journey from Ithaca to Troy and back again. In the modern world, we are often enraptured by the details of his journey, but we can also be deeply ambivalent about the complicated man himself.

A scene on an amphora from Eleusis, near Athens, is the earliest representation of the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus and his men.

While modern audiences tend to be sympathetic towards the trickster hero Odysseus, the leading character of the epic poem that is named after him, a closer look reveals him to be a terrible person.

The suicide of the hero Ajax, the result of a dispute over the ownership of Achilles’ armour, was a popular motif in Archaic Greek art.

In ancient Greece, serious crimes were punishable by death. What forms did the death penalty take in Classical Athens?

A beautiful fresco from Pompeii depicts a scene straight from Virgil’s Aeneid: Aeneas being treated for a leg wound.

In Greek and Roman mythology, what is the difference between satyrs, sileni, and fauns, who all possessed animal characteristics?

In this episode, Josho Brouwers chats with PhD researchers Renata Schiavo and Arianna Sacco about ancient Egypt.