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A bald, shirtless man painted gold stands at the bottom of a gold ring, pushing against one side with his legs in a lunging position.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Reimagining Ancient Stories through Contemporary Lenses

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
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 row of six people, all but one dressed in varied togas. Two of the men raise their right hands in an oratorical gesture. Above each person is the name of a character in the Phormio.

Blog: Paternalism and the “Good Slave” in the Speech for Phormion and the Legacies of Slavery

Javal Coleman |
A dinner spread atop a mosaic-printed tablecloth. Two small glasses of red wine, a round bread loaf sliced into eighths, a terracotta bowl of green olives, and a bowl of pesto with a wooden spoon.

Blog: Food, Glorious Food

iandudum |
A beige terracotta vessel shaped like a long tear drop. A dark-skinned figure faces left wearing striped pants and a draped mantle holds an ax and an arrow.

Blog: Call It What It Is: Racism and Ancient Enslavement

Javal Coleman |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Ravenna Mosaic. Image courtesy of Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath.

Blog: Why do we think ancient pandemics changed the world?

Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai |
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 |
Header Image: Etruscan Alabaster Cinerary Urn with bas-relief that represents Odysseus and the Sirens. 3rd-2nd Cent. BCE. Museo Guarnacci, Volterra, Italy.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Making Personal Experiences Part of the Study of the Ancient World

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
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 |
Gaius Gracchus addressing the plebeians. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome

Serena Witzke |

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

Peter Gainsford |
Mosaic Tesserae, Byzantine (6th–15th century), Glass, gold and silver leaf. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number:2016.11.1–.50. Image Credit: Metropolitan Museum, public domain. Image source: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/7

Review: Discovering Intertextual Parallels in Latin and Greek with Tesserae

Julian Yolles |
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 |
Perseus and Andromeda in landscape fresco Metropolitan Museum_public domain

Review: Perseus Digital Library Scaife Viewer

Stephen Sansom |

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

Lisl Walsh |
Alexander the Great and King Poros

Review: Brill Jacoby Online

Matt Simonton |
Marble left hand holding a scroll

Review: Guidelines for Encoding Critical Editions for the Library of Digital Latin Texts

Donald Mastronarde, Richard J. Tarrant |