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The Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British Museum that British
An Interview with Dr. Paul Cartledge: Homer and the truth behind the ancient city of Troy.
In the new Netflix series "Alexander: The Making of a God", Alexander the Great shares a kiss with his general and lifelong friend and, according to experts, lover, Hephaestion. Yet, the kiss has aroused the ire of Pan-Macedonian associations and right-wing conservatives in Greece.
Netflix is at the centre of a row with the Greek government over its series Alexander: The Making of God 'inaccuracies'.
The epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey tell of humanity struggling with hubris, and revenge and mortality but also of forgiveness and the aftereffects of war.