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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
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 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
Gaius Gracchus addressing the plebeians. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome

Serena Witzke | Thursday, February 18, 2021

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: 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: Walk Like an Egyptian? How Modern Fashion Appropriates Antiquity

Katherine Blouin | Monday, January 14, 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
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