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An illustration of a woman standing under a portico against a gold background. She is fully covered in a long, draped dress and veil, with only her face showing and her hands raised.

Blog: Women in Roman Higher Education: Marginal(ized) Learners, Teachers, and Intellectuals

Sinja Küppers | Thursday, November 9, 2023
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
Four fragments of pottery with different marks on each. Beneath each photo of a pottery sherd is a drawing of that sherd. From left to right, the sherds are labeled Geometric Mark, Complex Mark, Script Sign, and Multi-sign.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Signs of Writing? Writing and Trade in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

cassdonn | Monday, June 6, 2022
A stone sculpture of Sabina's head from the front. She has a subtle smile and wears a fillet on her hair, which is styled into an updo.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: The Portraits of the Roman Empress Sabina: A Numismatic and Sculptural Study

Fae Amiro | Tuesday, May 31, 2022
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 hand-drawn map on yellowed parchment with drawings of buildings and an aqueduct. In the center, a togaed man sits on a throne with a spear in his right hand and a halo behind him, indicating his sainthood. Red text behind his head reads ANTIOCHIA.

Blog: Power to Punish and Authority to Forgive: Imperial State and Imprisonment in 4th-Century Antioch

Alberto De Simoni | Friday, March 18, 2022
A woodcut of a black and white manuscript page with Latin text at the bottom. Above the text is an image of a woman covered in feathers with the wings and feet of a bird, thebreasts and face of a human woman, and long hair. A banner above her reads "FAMA"

Dissertation Spotlight: Vicinitas in Urbe: Neighborliness and Urban Community in Mid-Republican Rome

Jordan Rogers | Monday, February 7, 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
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
An ornate carved gold square, at the center of which is a stylized horse with a small winged animal resting on its hind quarters. There are decorative patterns forming a border around the horse.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Language and Difference in Herodotus

Edward Nolan | Monday, November 22, 2021
A section of a painted fresco showing a woman with auburn hair tied into a low bun. She wears a laurel crown and a turquoise toga over one shoulder, and she looks down to her right.

Dissertation Spotlight: A New History of Roman Emotion

Jennifer Devereaux | Friday, November 12, 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
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
A large, brown-skinned man, nude with a beard, stands amid a group of smaller men in togas. He is standing on some men and holding others in his hands.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Racialized Commodities: Thinking about Trade, Mobility, and Race in the Archaic Mediterranean

Christopher Parmenter | Monday, September 27, 2021

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