When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second-grade ...

“I didn’t take any photographs. The sights were recorded only in my eyes. The sounds, smells and tactile sensations that a camera cannot capture in any case were impressed on my ears, nose, face and ...

The ancient language that Alexander the Great used to command his vast empire is to be taught on an Oxford estate. Koine Greek — the language of philosophy, mathematics and mythology — will be taught ...

Greek Lessons, by Han Kang – whose novel, The Vegetarian, won the International Booker in 2016 – is a luminous and aching meditation on the difficulties of language: how it speaks to mortality, ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. Over the decades, faculty and students in the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research have earned a reputation for ...