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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 | Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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 | Wednesday, July 5, 2023
A collaged book cover of a boy with wings flying over a city

Blog: Classics Books for Young Readers

Krishni Burns | Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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 | Monday, November 15, 2021
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 | Monday, November 8, 2021
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 | Monday, November 1, 2021
Roman civilians examining the Twelve Tables after they were first implemented.

Blog: Updates to the SCS Blog guidelines

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad | Thursday, September 2, 2021
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 | Wednesday, June 2, 2021

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

Eleonora Colli | Thursday, January 30, 2020
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 | Thursday, October 11, 2018
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 | Thursday, October 4, 2018

Blog: Diversifying Classics II: The University of Michigan’s Bridge MA

Arum Park | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
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 | Thursday, September 13, 2018
Photo by Christopher Trinacty and used by permission.

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

Christopher Trinacty | Thursday, September 6, 2018
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 | Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Roman Era Mummy Portraits from the Getty, Met, Wikimedia.

Blog: Diversifying Classics: A New Initiative at Princeton

Arum Park | Monday, August 13, 2018
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 | Thursday, August 2, 2018

Blog: Through the lens of 'Dragon Blade': Rethinking “East” and “West” in a Classics film course

Denise McCoskey | Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Gravestone of a woman with her attendant (100 BCE). Getty Villa (Image via Wikimedia under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License).

Blog: Digital Teens: Training a New Generation of Tech-Savvy Classicists

Liz Penland | Wednesday, June 6, 2018
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 | Friday, June 1, 2018