Jeopardy! went from tying the record for the most one-day champions in a row to having an eight-day champion. Scott Riccardi, from Somerville, New Jersey, returned for his ninth game, and tried to hit ...

Historical films have a knack for pulling us in with drama, costumes, and grand declarations. Yet once the dust settles, ...

The playwright borrows elements of Greek tragedy for his story about a lesser-known king who provides defensive aid in the ...

When Hector Guimard's subway designs were unveiled in the early 1900s, the public rejected his Art Nouveau style. Soon, a new ...

Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.

The Aetolians were an ancient Greek tribe of hardened hillmen that managed to defeat the mighty army of Alexander the Great.

When their student-teacher relationship ended in 340 B.C., Aristotle gave his own, annotated copy of the Iliad to Alexander, who carried the book to Asia and famously placed it under his pillow ...