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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 | Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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 pink flyer titled "A Conversation with Luis Alfaro." Shows a hand holding up an illustration of a theater, with images of theater lights behind it.

Blog: The Luis Alfaro Residency Project

Young Kim | Friday, May 27, 2022
A man in a light blue toga hugs a woman with black hair, seen only from the back, who buries her head in his shoulder and raises her left hand in lament.

Blog: I Love You, I Hate You: A Student’s Perspective on Learning Latin

Riya Juneja | Monday, March 21, 2022
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 | Monday, March 14, 2022
People sit around a table playing a board game. Two women on the left reach their arms across the board. One is pointing with her index finger.

Blog: Immersivity and (Other) “Fantasies of Antiquity”

Benjamin Stevens | Monday, December 6, 2021
An engraving showing a muscly man in a helmet carrying an elderly, also muscly man in his arms. A woman with long hair and a small child are also in motion. The figures are moving over fallen statues and weapons inside a large building next to a staircase

Blog: Whose Aeneid? Imperialism, Fascism, and the Politics of Reception

SamAgbamu | Monday, November 29, 2021
A white circle on a black background with green leaves and white flowers. Around the circle is a yellow vine border, and in the middle there is a palm tree. On the left side of the tree, an abstract figure in drapery stands, and on the right side, a simil

Blog: Dissertation spotlight: A Tale of Four Cities: Exploring Classical Reception in Modern Hebrew

Giacomo Loi | Friday, October 22, 2021

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

Peter Gainsford | Friday, October 23, 2020

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

Nandini Pandey | Friday, July 10, 2020

Blog: What Are the Best Classics Books for Children?

Sarah Bond | Friday, July 3, 2020
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 | Thursday, March 12, 2020

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

Eleonora Colli | Thursday, January 30, 2020

Blog: Horror and Self Reflection: Jordan Peele's Us, Plato, and Modern America

Justin Biggi | Thursday, August 29, 2019
The Sphinx of Naxos. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Picture by Yoandy Cabrera

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Understanding Mythological Embodiments of Emotion

Yoandy Cabrera Ortega | Thursday, June 13, 2019

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

Samuel Flores | Thursday, May 16, 2019
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 | Thursday, April 18, 2019

Blog: Ale Caesar! Classical Reception and the Art of the Beer Label

Sarah Bond | Friday, December 7, 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

Blog: The Oral Tradition: How Classics Students Organized a Homerathon in Nebraska

Matthew Loar | Wednesday, August 29, 2018