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Two images of a cartoon Hades. Left, from the Hercules movie, a large, fat, gray man wearing a gray tshirt and black toga. His face is long and narrow, his eyes yellow, and his hair looks like a blue flame coming off the top of his head. Right, a blue-skinned man that looks like a human wearing a black suit and tie and white shirt, his hair is short and silvery.

Blog: Bad Boys and Worse Verse: Hades and Persephone in Translation, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Young/New Adult Fiction

Piper Hays |
A row of six people, all but one dressed in varied togas. Two of the men raise their right hands in an oratorical gesture. Above each person is the name of a character in the Phormio.

Blog: Paternalism and the “Good Slave” in the Speech for Phormion and the Legacies of Slavery

Javal Coleman |
A shirtless black man with tattoos and a red bandana sits on a box of records facing right. He looks at a black boy in a red and white striped shirt. Both of their shadows are visible on the wall behind them.

Blog: Sampling Epic in Kendrick Lamar’s “Mortal Man”

Justine McConnell |
Oil painting of a white man sitting in a large chair facing left with a dissatisfied expression. He wears a white toga with red drapery over his left arm, a crown, a gold cuff bracelet, and short curly hair. A tiger sits between his legs.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus

Emma Warhover |
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 |
A bronze bust of a man with short, wavy hair and a slightly pained expression on his face.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: The Shape of an Empire: Environments, Economies, and the Nature of the Seleucid State

dmklokow |
Roman civilians examining the Twelve Tables after they were first implemented.

Blog: Updates to the SCS Blog guidelines

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad |
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 |
14th century illustrated manuscript of Omne Bonum (by James le Palmer – British Library MS Royal 6 E. VI, fol. 301ra); it shows a bishop instructing clerics with leprosy.

Blog: “Disease Discourse” as a Phenomenon: Classical, and Christian, and Contemporary

Carson Bay |
Header image: Gold death-mask, known as the ‘mask of Agamemnon’. Mycenae, Grave Circle A, Grave V, 16th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Ancient Worlds through Modern Podcasts

Nina Papathanasopoulou |

Blog: Truth Behind Myth: Video Games and the Recreation of the Trojan War

Peter Gainsford |

Blog: What Parts of Classics Would We Choose To Preserve for the Future?

Nandini Pandey |

Blog: What Are the Best Classics Books for Children?

Sarah Bond |
Fragments of a mosaic showing men's faces and arms, one wearing a helmet

Blog: ‘Greater the Profit...When Two Go Together” [Il. 10.224-5]: Homeric Adventures in Collaboration and Open Access Publishing

Joel Christensen, Elton Barker |

Blog: Will Reading Fiction Make You a Better Ancient Historian?

Carlos Noreña |
The Sphinx of Naxos. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Picture by Yoandy Cabrera

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Understanding Mythological Embodiments of Emotion

Yoandy Cabrera Ortega |

Blog: Classics and Pop Music: Classical Allusions and Literary Techniques in the Music of Jay-Z

Samuel Flores |
Eta Sigma Phi students, Callie Todhunter, Noah Andrys, and Myles Young, staff the Homerathon booth at the University of Iowa

Blog: Connecting with Community at the University of Iowa's Homerathon

Rosemary Moore |

Blog: What Does Productivity Even Mean to an Ancient Historian?

Lindsey Mazurek |
A white marble sculpture of a hand hold a long cylinder

Blog: A Guide to Pitching Your Book at a Conference

Erin Averett, Sarah Bond, Derek Counts, Bethany Wasik |