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A woodcut of a black and white manuscript page with Latin text at the bottom. Above the text is an image of a woman covered in feathers with the wings and feet of a bird, thebreasts and face of a human woman, and long hair. A banner above her reads "FAMA"

Dissertation Spotlight: Vicinitas in Urbe: Neighborliness and Urban Community in Mid-Republican Rome

Jordan Rogers | Monday, February 7, 2022
A painting of Rome featuring a crowd of men fighting on a hill. Behind them is an obelisk, a column, and a toppled white marble statue of a nude man.

Blog: Ista Tempora! Isti Mores!: January 6th, A Year Later

Joel Christensen | Thursday, January 6, 2022
A monochromatic stone statue of a man with short hair wrapped in a toga and sitting in a large chair. His right arm is leaning on the back of the chair, and his left hand holds a writing tablet on his lap. The base of the statue reads "SALLVSTIVS"

Blog: Sallust at the Insurrection

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov | Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Oil painting of a white man sitting in a large chair facing left with a dissatisfied expression. He wears a white toga with red drapery over his left arm, a crown, a gold cuff bracelet, and short curly hair. A tiger sits between his legs.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus

Emma Warhover | Monday, December 27, 2021
Roman civilians examining the Twelve Tables after they were first implemented.

Blog: Updates to the SCS Blog guidelines

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad | Thursday, September 2, 2021

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

Agnes Crawford | Friday, October 11, 2019

Blog: Will Reading Fiction Make You a Better Ancient Historian?

Carlos Noreña | Monday, July 22, 2019

Blog: Domestic Violence in Ancient Rome and Game of Thrones

Serena Witzke | Monday, May 27, 2019

Blog: Narrative Podcasts about the Classical World

Christopher Polt | Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Header Image: Roman slave shackle found at Headbourne Worthy, Hampshire (Image via Wikimedia and taken by PortableAntiquities under a CC-BY-2.0).

Blog: Teaching Ancient Slavery in the South

Samuel Flores | Friday, November 23, 2018
Infant Hercules Strangling Two Serpents, late 15th–early 16th century. Bronze. Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

Blog: Graphic Mythology: How Graphic Novels Visualize the Ancient World

Christopher Trinacty | Thursday, October 11, 2018
YouTube-TedEd screenshot from “A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome” animated by Cognitive Media and written and narrated by Ray Laurence (Image under a CC BY -- NC -- ND 4.0 International license).

Blog: Teaching Roman Daily Life Through Animation: Spotlight on Ray Laurence

Sarah Bond | Thursday, October 4, 2018

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

Arum Park | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Rebecca Futo Kennedy teaching in Rome. Photo courtesy of Rebecca Futo Kennedy.

Blog: A Day in the Life of a Classicist and Museum Director

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov | Thursday, September 13, 2018
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
Roman Era Mummy Portraits from the Getty, Met, Wikimedia.

Blog: Diversifying Classics: A New Initiative at Princeton

Arum Park | Monday, August 13, 2018
Vincenzo Camuccini. The Assassination of Julius Caesar, between 1804 and 1805. Oil on canvas. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.

Blog: Teaching With Historical Fiction: Revisiting the Ides of March in Steven Saylor’s The Throne of Caesar

Jen Ebbeler | Thursday, August 2, 2018

Blog: Through the lens of 'Dragon Blade': Rethinking “East” and “West” in a Classics film course

Denise McCoskey | Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Gravestone of a woman with her attendant (100 BCE). Getty Villa (Image via Wikimedia under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License).

Blog: Digital Teens: Training a New Generation of Tech-Savvy Classicists

Liz Penland | Wednesday, June 6, 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