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A black and white photo of a woman with long, dark hair in a ponytail lying on the floor on her tiptoes with knees bent. Her hands are raised in the air in front of her, and from her fingers many long, thin metal wires curve in different directions.

Blog: Martha Graham meets Ancient Greece in Philadelphia

James Ker, Nina Papathanasopoulou |
A mosaic depicting a crowd of male soldier on horseback brandishing spears. One man sits atop a chariot higher that the others, wearing a crested helmet and reaching out with his right hand.

Blog: How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

Jordan Mitchell |
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 rust-colored mosaic of a man's face with shaggy hair and a beard

Odysseus Shot First: Signs of Differing Traditions in Odyssey 16-22

Ben Winnick |
A collaged book cover of a boy with wings flying over a city

Blog: Classics Books for Young Readers

Krishni Burns |
A black-and-white image of the reverse of a diadrachm of Magas, dated 300–275 BCE, depicting the silphium plant, with a small crab on the right side and Greek letters interspersed in the branches of the plant.

Blog: Roe v. Wade, the GOP, and echoes of Augustus: Reproducing fascism

Serena Witzke |
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 |
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 |
Gaius Gracchus addressing the plebeians. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome

Serena Witzke |

Blog: Are We Orpheus or Eurydice? Singing Salvation in Popular Music

Eleonora Colli |

Blog: Inscribed Memory, the Holocaust, and the Jewish Population of Rome

Sarah Bond |

Blog: Exploring the Newly Reopened Domus Transitoria, Nero’s First Palace on the Palatine Hill

Agnes Crawford |

Blog: Walk Like an Egyptian? How Modern Fashion Appropriates Antiquity

Katherine Blouin |
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 |
Photo by Christopher Trinacty and used by permission.

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

Christopher Trinacty |
Roman Triumphal arch panel copy from Beth Hatefutsoth, showing spoils of Jerusalem temple. Image via Wikimedia under a CC BY-SA 3.0 License.

Blog: Roman Festivals in Rabbinic Literature and the intersection of Judaism and Rome

Catherine Bonesho |

Blog: Sites of Memory and Memories of Conflict: Imperial Rome, Jerusalem, and Nero

Catherine Bonesho |
Trajan’s Column: detail of frieze reliefs (image via Flickr by MCAD under a CC BY 2.0)

Blog: Roma, Amor: Inside the Column of Trajan and Under the Pantheon Oculus

Catherine Bonesho |