Thanks to a classicist’s research, the sounds of ancient Greek music can be heard again. Scholars have long been familiar with the instruments used during the era, and, of course, with the texts by ...

A centuries-old puzzle about the music that Ancient Greeks listened to has finally been solved, thanks to a pioneering new study. Music was an integral part of Ancient Greek culture, with the work of ...

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis studies early classical music—the really early stuff. Over lunch recently, in a café not far from his office, at Harvard University, I asked him to describe what he's most ...

Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like. Take the Greeks for example. We can see the stadiums and ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

This Wednesday, the Rialto Theatre welcomes to its stage two leading figures of the Greek music scene: distinguished vocalist Dimitris Basis and internationally acclaimed classical guitarist ...

The 1984 Olympic anthem composed by John Williams has become synonymous with the image of the modern Olympics, and for good reason. But what about the other anthems such as the classic Bugler's Dream ...

Classical Studies is one of William & Mary's five original departments. Studying the culture, history and archaeology of ancient Mediterranean civilizations provides a solid background for ...