A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...

THE progress of civilization may be compared to the ancient torch-race. The nations have succeeded one another like the runners. As one sinks exhausted, another grasps the torch and carries it forward ...

Greece has always had a complex relationship with time. Ancient history and modernity in most places make for uneasy bedfellows. In Greece? They’re inseparable. Ancient Greece essentially pioneered ...

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. By Mark Mazower. Penguin Press; 608 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30 WHEN A COALITION of footloose merchants, sea captains, hard-pressed peasants ...

The pre-eminent translator of poets like C.P. Cavafy and George Seferis, he was also a well-regarded novelist and poet in his own right. By Clay Risen Edmund Keeley, who as a novelist, translator, ...