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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
An animated of a red curtain hanging between two ionic columns. The curtain reads "POPEYE meets HERCULES"

Blog: SCS Contingent Faculty Blog: Dr. Chiara Sulprizio

Chiara Sulprizio | Friday, April 14, 2023
Two handled Greek wine cup with two faces, one of a Black African man and one of a Greek woman

Blog: “What is it like to be the only Black person in your department?”

Javal Coleman | Friday, February 24, 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
Beneath a tree, three women look on as another woman holds a nude infant by one ankle, dangling him into the water of a stream below.

Blog: Loving the Impossible: Greek, Latin and Autism, part 2

Kristina Chew | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
A woman sitting in a chair holds a young boy in her lap. Other women around her look on and gesture with their hands.

Blog: Loving the Impossible: Greek, Latin and Autism, part 1

Kristina Chew | Wednesday, October 5, 2022
A black and white illustration of a nude man's body with an off-center head, eyes wide. On the floor are an open book and a skull.

Blog: Reading and Writing Classics Faculty Job Ads

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
New WCC logo reading WCC 50th, 1972-2022. Beige font on a dusty pink background.

Blog: The WCC at 50: Fostering Communities of Care

Suzanne_Lye, Caroline Cheung, Eunice Kim, Adriana Vazquez | Monday, January 3, 2022
A white woman wearing rectangular glasses, a black mask, and a purple t-shirt holds a white flag. Behind her, a person in a black jacket with a fur-trimmed hood holds a sign. They are outdoors on the sidewalk, and the sky is cloudy.

Blog: Contingent Faculty Series: A Conversation with Dr. Aven McMaster

Aven McMaster | Monday, December 20, 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
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
Dr. Rock-McCutcheon and the cast of Antigone for Arts Day 2019 at Wilson College. Image courtesy of Bonnie Rock-McCutcheon.

Blog: Contingent Faculty Series: A Conversation with Bonnie Rock-McCutcheon

BonnieMcCutcheon | Monday, March 29, 2021

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

Eleonora Colli | Thursday, January 30, 2020
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

Amphora: Learn to Spend the Big Money: Medievalists Mary Carruthers, Irina Dumitrescu, and Barbara Rosenwein on Humanities Outreach

Ellen Bauerle | Wednesday, February 22, 2017

“Gallows enthusiasm” on and beyond the academic job market

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad | Tuesday, April 15, 2014