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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 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 | Saturday, June 25, 2022
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 | Monday, November 8, 2021
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 | Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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 | Friday, March 26, 2021
Gaius Gracchus addressing the plebeians. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome

Serena Witzke | Thursday, February 18, 2021

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

Peter Gainsford | Friday, October 23, 2020

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

Sarah Bond | Friday, October 18, 2019

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

Agnes Crawford | Friday, October 11, 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: Walk Like an Egyptian? How Modern Fashion Appropriates Antiquity

Katherine Blouin | Monday, January 14, 2019
Roman Triumphal arch panel copy from Beth Hatefutsoth, showing spoils of Jerusalem temple. Image via Wikimedia under a CC BY-SA 3.0 License.

Blog: Roman Festivals in Rabbinic Literature and the intersection of Judaism and Rome

Catherine Bonesho | Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Blog: Sites of Memory and Memories of Conflict: Imperial Rome, Jerusalem, and Nero

Catherine Bonesho | Thursday, July 5, 2018
Trajan’s Column: detail of frieze reliefs (image via Flickr by MCAD under a CC BY 2.0)

Blog: Roma, Amor: Inside the Column of Trajan and Under the Pantheon Oculus

Catherine Bonesho | Friday, June 1, 2018
Photo of newly reopened murals in the Domus Augusti by Agnes Crawford.

Blog: Exploring the Reopened House of Augustus on the Palatine

Agnes Crawford | Friday, May 18, 2018
John Ochsendorf via MacArthur Foundation. Provided to Bonesho by John Ochsendorf.

Blog: An Interview with John Ochsendorf, New Director of the American Academy in Rome

Catherine Bonesho | Sunday, March 25, 2018

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

Angeline Chiu | Monday, September 11, 2017

Amphora: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl—The Power of Pretense

Victoria Pagán | Monday, May 8, 2017

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

Tom Kohn | Monday, April 10, 2017