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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 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 white bust of a man with curly hair against a dark background

Blog: Part II: Casting Cleopatra: It’s All About Politics

Three Ancient Historians, Katherine Blouin, Usama Gad, Rebecca Kennedy |
A marble bust of a man with curly hair against a dark background

Blog: Part I: Casting Cleopatra: It’s All About Politics

Three Ancient Historians, Katherine Blouin, Usama Gad, Rebecca Kennedy |

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

Peter Gainsford |

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

Nandini Pandey |

Blog: What Are the Best Classics Books for Children?

Sarah Bond |
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 |
The Sphinx of Naxos. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. Picture by Yoandy Cabrera

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Understanding Mythological Embodiments of Emotion

Yoandy Cabrera Ortega |

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

Samuel Flores |
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 |

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

Matthew Loar |
Ancient Greek football player balancing the ball. Part of a marble grave stele, found in Piraeus, 400-375 BC. Item (NAMA) 873 of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Image via Wikimedia under Public Domain.

Blog: A Regular Roman’s Guide to the World Cup Semifinal Match

Joel Christensen, Erik Robinson |
Composite RGB image of manuscript E3, Escorialensis 291 (Υ.i.1): overview of folio 32 recto Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Review: Reviewing A Digital Edition of Homer

Bill Beck |

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

Angeline Chiu |

Amphora: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl—The Power of Pretense

Victoria Pagán |

Amphora: Tartarus and the Curses of Percy Jackson (or Annabeth’s Adventures in the Underworld)

Tom Kohn |