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A collection of small statues of ancient women in various poses

Blog: (Re)habilitating Old Woman A, or: Reading female bad language in Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen as a 40-something woman

Amy Coker |

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Contemporary Responses to Greek Myth and Tragedy through Drama, Film, and Visual Art

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
A bronze bust of a man with short, wavy hair and a slightly pained expression on his face.

Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: The Shape of an Empire: Environments, Economies, and the Nature of the Seleucid State

dmklokow |
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 |
Asclepius, his sons, daughters, and Hygeia in the background with a family of worshippers. Votive Relief from the 4th cent. BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Connecting to the Ancient Greeks through Medicine, Sociology, Literature and Philosophy

Nina Papathanasopoulou |
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 |

Blog: The Art of Translation: An Interview with Jinyu Liu

Adrienne Rose |

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

Carlos Noreña |
Eta Sigma Phi students, Callie Todhunter, Noah Andrys, and Myles Young, staff the Homerathon booth at the University of Iowa

Blog: Connecting with Community at the University of Iowa's Homerathon

Rosemary Moore |

Blog: What Does Productivity Even Mean to an Ancient Historian?

Lindsey Mazurek |
Pieter Coecke van Aelst, the elder (Flemish, 1502-1550). 'Saint Jerome in His Study,' ca. 1530. oil on panel. Walters Art Museum (37.256): Acquired by Henry Walters. Image via Wikimedia under Public Domain.

Blog: Valuing Classical Translations for Outreach, Diversity, and Art

Diane Rayor |
A white marble sculpture of a hand hold a long cylinder

Blog: A Guide to Pitching Your Book at a Conference

Erin Averett, Sarah Bond, Derek Counts, Bethany Wasik |
Sousse Mosaic, CC BY-SA 3.0, Ad Meskens

Blog: Classics on Stage: Collaborating with Theatre Colleagues

Christopher Bungard |
Amazonomachy scene: An Amazon woman warrior (left) doing battle with a Greek on a frieze (decorative band that runs the length of a building's wall) panel from the Halicarnassus Mausoleum and now at the British Museum.

Blog: A Day in the Life of a Classicist

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Nadya Williams |
Detail of Thalia from the Sarcophagus of the Muses, late 2nd century CE, Thassian marble, Archaeological Museum of Ostia. Photo taken by Krishni Burns, unpublished.

Blog: Finding Comedy in the Performance of Ancient Drama

Krishni Burns |
Adrienne Mayor with Nikos Solounias, still image from "Ancient Monster Hunters" (A&E Home Video, 2004)

Blog: An Interview with Adrienne Mayor

Adrienne Mayor |