Academus has partnered with the UCL Classical Play to produce a resource booklet all about the Odyssey as classicists and dramatists.

Academus has launched its own merchandise with Greek Vase designs including T-Shirts, Stationery and Posters!

In his Symposium, Plato asks the question 'What is Love?', exploring various philosophical responses to this question.

Academus is hiring new young volunteers to join our team for 2021. We're hiring people on part time and flexible bases to start ASAP.

Our statement about the cyberattack that occurred during our event on 11th Feb 2021.

Sappho of Lesbos was a Greek lyric poet. She is unique as she provides a female voice and shows female desire for other women in her verses.

Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor who legalised Christianity, paving the way it to become the dominant religion in Rome later on.

Augustus signifies the end of the Roman republic and the beginning of the empire, and his rise to power shows how Rome changed at this time.

The Amasis Painter's Amphora 'Dionysus and the Maenads' is a black-figure vase depicting the god Dionysus and his female followers

The Theban Plays of Sophocles are linked by the setting of Thebes and the house of Oedipus and are perhaps Sophocles' most famous plays.

This video lecture explores Plato's views on Philosopher-Queens and the role of women in society in the Republic and Laws.

Pindar Pythian 3 is a Greek lyric ode, with a resonance to the modern day pandemic. Featuring a translation by our own writer Megan Bowler.

Saturnalia has had a huge influence over Christmas celebrations, from gift giving to feasting.

Saturnalia was a religious festival held in mid-winter, with a rich history and fun traditions that have carried over into Christmas

Join us to celebrate Academus and the holiday season in our festive fundraiser quiz!

Pompeii has become famous as it is very well preserved. The Villa of the Mysteries contains frescoes that continue to baffle modern scholars

The journey of Odysseus in the underworld shows a heroic journey into the land of the dead on his way home from Troy.

An eidolon can refer to phantoms, ghosts, reflections and apparitons, and their appearance in Greek tragedy illuminates their function.

How Euripides’ Bacchae creates an image of the Maenads Maenads, the exclusively female followers of Dionysus, loomed large in the...

The so-called 'Alexander' Sarcophagus reveals to us how the different cultures of Greece, Macedon and Persia may have interacted.