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 ...

Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

In high school, I was particularly fond of a serious and attentive Latin teacher who never seemed disturbed by my reluctance to speak during class. Once, on the first day back to school after a break, ...