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A black woman in an orange dress raises her hands forward towards a black man with glasses in a purple suit, who grins back at her open-mouthed

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Exploring Violence, Gender, and Race through New Works in Film, Art, and Theater

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
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 |
A collection of small statues of ancient women in various poses

Blog: (Re)habilitating Old Woman A, or: Reading female bad language in Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen as a 40-something woman

Amy Coker |
A black-and-white image of the reverse of a diadrachm of Magas, dated 300–275 BCE, depicting the silphium plant, with a small crab on the right side and Greek letters interspersed in the branches of the plant.

Blog: Roe v. Wade, the GOP, and echoes of Augustus: Reproducing fascism

Serena Witzke |
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 |
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 |
The poster for RU an Antígone? A black background with a Parthenon marble cast in the center, shaped like a headless male body reclining on its left side, propped up on its left arm, which is covered in drapery. The text reads: RU an Antigone?

Blog: RU an Antígone?

Yoandy Cabrera Ortega |
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 |
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 |
Gaius Gracchus addressing the plebeians. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome

Serena Witzke |

Classics Everywhere: Engaging with Antiquity through Film and Theater at Home

Nina Papathanasopoulou |

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 |

Blog: Inscribed Memory, the Holocaust, and the Jewish Population of Rome

Sarah Bond |

Blog: Exploring the Newly Reopened Domus Transitoria, Nero’s First Palace on the Palatine Hill

Agnes Crawford |
Three Roman votive offering representing faces. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vy2engnk

Blog: Tiny Blessings: A New Digital Project Focused On Votives

Emma-Jayne Graham |

Blog: Walk Like an Egyptian? How Modern Fashion Appropriates Antiquity

Katherine Blouin |
Header Image: Athena looks on as Oedipus slays the Sphinx (Attic red-figured lekythos, 420-400 BCE now at the British Museum).

Blog: Luis Alfaro at the Two SCSs

Young Kim |

Blog: What a Difference an ἤ Makes: Hippocrates, Racism, and the Translation of Greco-Roman Thought

Lisl Walsh |
Photo by Christopher Trinacty and used by permission.

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

Christopher Trinacty |