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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 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 | Monday, June 20, 2022
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 | Monday, December 27, 2021
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
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 | Monday, October 18, 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
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 | Friday, May 21, 2021

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

Eleonora Colli | Thursday, January 30, 2020

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

Carlos Noreña | Monday, July 22, 2019

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

Lindsey Mazurek | Thursday, February 21, 2019
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 | Friday, December 28, 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
Close-up of the statue base of “Silent Sam” on campus at UNC-Chapel Hill with ink and blood running down (Image by permission of the Workers Union at UNC-CH).

Blog: Removing "Silent Sam": Confederate Statues and the Misuse of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill

Kelly McArdle | Sunday, May 20, 2018
Amazonomachy scene: An Amazon woman warrior (left) doing battle with a Greek on a frieze (decorative band that runs the length of a building's wall) panel from the Halicarnassus Mausoleum and now at the British Museum.

Blog: A Day in the Life of a Classicist

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Nadya Williams | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Adrienne Mayor with Nikos Solounias, still image from "Ancient Monster Hunters" (A&E Home Video, 2004)

Blog: An Interview with Adrienne Mayor

Adrienne Mayor | Saturday, March 31, 2018