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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 |
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 |
A mosaic featuring two rows of light-skinned women wearing brown bikinis. On top, two women are running, one hold a large object, and one stands still. On the bottom, one holds a crown, one holds a branch, and two play catch with a ball.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Interpreting the Ancient World through Music, Art, and Photography

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
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 |
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 |
Header image: Gold death-mask, known as the ‘mask of Agamemnon’. Mycenae, Grave Circle A, Grave V, 16th cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Ancient Worlds through Modern Podcasts

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
A human pushing a round boulder up a steep incline

Blog: Tracing Tragedy: Classical Reception in Modernist Literature

Manya Lempert, Arum Park |

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

Peter Gainsford |

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

Eleonora Colli |

Blog: Why is Heavy Metal Music Obsessed with Ancient Sparta?

Jeremy Swist |
A mosaic showing three people, one dark skinned and two light skinned, with long hair

Blog: What Do We Mean When We Say “Diversity”? Addressing Different Kinds of Inequity

Joy Reeber, Arum Park |
The Sphinx of Naxos. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Picture by Yoandy Cabrera

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Understanding Mythological Embodiments of Emotion

Yoandy Cabrera Ortega |

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

Arum Park |
Photo by Christopher Trinacty and used by permission.

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

Christopher Trinacty |
Roman Era Mummy Portraits from the Getty, Met, Wikimedia.

Blog: Diversifying Classics: A New Initiative at Princeton

Arum Park |
Figure of the heavenly bodies - Illuminated illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric conception of the Universe by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho (?-1568). From his work Cosmographia, made in France, 1568 (Public Domain).

Blog: What Is "The West"? Addressing The Controversy Over HUM110 at Reed College

Sarah Bond |
Tarquinius en Lucretia

Blog: Teaching Classics in the Age of #MeToo

Sara Hales, Arum Park |

Amphora: Labors and Lesson Plans—Educating Young Hercules in Two 1990s Children’s Television Programs

Angeline Chiu |
Detail of bust in the Centrale Monemartini Museum

Amphora: The Metal Age—The Use of Classics in Heavy Metal Music

Kristopher Fletcher |

Amphora: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl—The Power of Pretense

Victoria Pagán |