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A window display featuring books about Greek myth, a model of the Ishtar Gate, and a large papier-mache figure of Poseidon.

Blog: First Contact: Why Middle School Ancient History is So Important

Stephen Guerriero |
A book cover with a pink and white geometrically-patterned background. In the middle stands a cartoon man with a beard, a bald head, a toga, and a walking stick. He is surrounded by stars and symbols. A small, gray dog at his feet sniffs an ant.

Blog: Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers

Krishni Burns |
An oil painting set in front of rust-colored rocks. A woman in pink drapery with her head covered approaches from a higher rock with her arms outstretched. Below, a woman in yellow and green, next to a man in black, reaches up towards her.

Blog: Persephone’s Pomegranate Seed and My 5-Year Visa

Ximing Lu |
Text reads "Ego, Polyphemus, a Latin novella by Andrew Olimpi." A blue sky behind an upside-down image of a bald man with gray skin, wearing a black one-shoulder garment, with a single eye in the middle of his forehead.

Blog: Latin Novellas and the New Pedagogy

Thomas Hendrickson |
Children playing ball games, 2nd century AD. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Think of the Children: Reflections on Reception of the Classical World

funkem, victoriaaustenperry |
Penelope and the Suitors, by John William Waterhouse. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Weaving Humanity Together: How Weaving Reveals Human Unity in Ancient Times

Anika T. Prather |
Goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone give grain to Triptolemos and teach him the art of agriculture. Marble Relief from Eleusis. ca. 430 BCE. Roman copy. ca. 27 BCE – 14 CE. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Blog: Classics Everywhere: Fostering Interaction and Engagement in School-Aged Children

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
Map of Atlantis by Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus, vol. 1. (Amsterdam 1678) (Image in the Public Domain via Wikimedia).

Blog: Archaeology and Aliens: Teaching the Myth of Atlantis

Ana Maria Guay |
Tondo showing the Severan dynasty: Septimius Severus with Julia Domna, Caracalla and Geta, whose face has been erased, probably because of the damnatio memoriae put against him by Caracalla, from Djemila (Algeria), circa AD 199-200, Altes Museum, Berlin.

Blog: Diversifying Latin in High School and Middle School Classrooms

Danielle Bostick |
Header Image: Roman slave shackle found at Headbourne Worthy, Hampshire (Image via Wikimedia and taken by PortableAntiquities under a CC-BY-2.0).

Blog: Teaching Ancient Slavery in the South

Samuel Flores |

Blog: Classics and the “Flyover States”: Remembering the Morrill Act in Middle America

Matthew Loar |
Dictionaries in the University of Iowa Classics Seminar Room, picture by Lindsay Vella and used by permission.

Review: Exploring Logeion, a Searchable Database of Greek and Latin Dictionaries

Willeon Slenders |
Infant Hercules Strangling Two Serpents, late 15th–early 16th century. Bronze. Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

Blog: Graphic Mythology: How Graphic Novels Visualize the Ancient World

Christopher Trinacty |
YouTube-TedEd screenshot from “A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome” animated by Cognitive Media and written and narrated by Ray Laurence (Image under a CC BY -- NC -- ND 4.0 International license).

Blog: Teaching Roman Daily Life Through Animation: Spotlight on Ray Laurence

Sarah Bond |
Rebecca Futo Kennedy teaching in Rome. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Futo Kennedy.

Blog: A Day in the Life of a Classicist and Museum Director

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov |
Header Image: Detail of a fresco from the Temple of Isis, representing a sea dragon and a dolphin, 1st century AD (Fourth Style), Museu Nacional, Brazil (Image via Wikimedia under a CC-BY-SA 4.0).

Blog: Brazil’s National Museum: Raising Ourselves from the Ashes

Juliana Marques |
Photo by Christopher Trinacty and used by permission.

Blog: Music and Mythology: A Classics Playlist for the End of Summer

Christopher Trinacty |

Blog: The Oral Tradition: How Classics Students Organized a Homerathon in Nebraska

Matthew Loar |
Vergilius Romanus. Shepherd with flocks (Georgics, Book III). First half of the 5th c., 22 x 22.5 cm. Vatican Apostolic Library. Vat. Lat. 3867. F ° 44v. Image via Wikipedia by Public Domain.

Blog: Virgil on the Stage: Theatrical Performances of the Eclogues

Patrick Hogan |
Vincenzo Camuccini. The Assassination of Julius Caesar, between 1804 and 1805. Oil on canvas. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.

Blog: Teaching With Historical Fiction: Revisiting the Ides of March in Steven Saylor’s The Throne of Caesar

Jen Ebbeler |