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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 | Thursday, November 2, 2023
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
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
Four stone columns in the shape of women dressed in drapery stand at the front of a stone building with a green, domed roof.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Increasing Accessibility for the Study of the Ancient World

Nina Papathanasopoulou | Friday, April 8, 2022
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 | Monday, January 24, 2022
A beige sarcophagus covered in relief carvings of men and animals.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Art and Theater Projects Reinvigorating Interest in the Study of Classics and its History

Nina Papathanasopoulou | Friday, November 5, 2021
Poster for the play, Plautus's Casina. A minimalist digital design with a blue background; mountain shapes in pink, yellow, and orange; walls with windows in the same colors; and an ancient statue of a woman.

Blog: A Latinx Casina

Krishni Burns, Luana Davila, Amy Gerwert Valdez | Monday, October 11, 2021
A Greek red-figure cup depicting the disembodied torso of a man, arms outstretched, and women on either side holding the torso

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Greek Tragedy for Audiences Today

Nina Papathanasopoulou | Friday, October 8, 2021
A black krater vase with red-figure depicts Zeus caressing Io while Hermes slays Argus

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Reimagining Greek and Roman literature for our Present Times

Nina Papathanasopoulou | Thursday, September 16, 2021
Sappho reading one of her poems to a group of friends. Red-figure vase by the Group of Polygnotos, ca. 440–430 BCE. National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Inclusivity and Accessibility in the Study of the Literature and History of Ancient Greece and Rome

Nina Papathanasopoulou | Monday, August 2, 2021
Gaius Gracchus addressing the plebeians. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome

Serena Witzke | Thursday, February 18, 2021
Image of the Arringatore statue, of an orator raising his right hand while giving a speech.

Blog: Using Rhetoric and Public Speaking to Revive Classics

Christopher Francese | Friday, July 17, 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

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
Vergilius Romanus. Shepherd with flocks (Georgics, Book III). First half of the 5th c., 22 x 22.5 cm. Vatican Apostolic Library. Vat. Lat. 3867. F ° 44v. Image via Wikipedia by Public Domain.

Blog: Virgil on the Stage: Theatrical Performances of the Eclogues

Patrick Hogan | Thursday, August 9, 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