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Two images of a cartoon Hades. Left, from the Hercules movie, a large, fat, gray man wearing a gray tshirt and black toga. His face is long and narrow, his eyes yellow, and his hair looks like a blue flame coming off the top of his head. Right, a blue-skinned man that looks like a human wearing a black suit and tie and white shirt, his hair is short and silvery.

Blog: Bad Boys and Worse Verse: Hades and Persephone in Translation, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to Young/New Adult Fiction

Piper Hays |
A screenshot from the Ugarit website showing a passage from the Odyssey in Ancient Greek on the left and an English translation by Murray on the right

Blog: Review: The UGARIT Translation Alignment Editor

Clifford Robinson |
A rust-colored mosaic of a man's face with shaggy hair and a beard

Odysseus Shot First: Signs of Differing Traditions in Odyssey 16-22

Ben Winnick |
A collaged book cover of a boy with wings flying over a city

Blog: Classics Books for Young Readers

Krishni Burns |
A hand-drawn map on yellowed parchment with drawings of buildings and an aqueduct. In the center, a togaed man sits on a throne with a spear in his right hand and a halo behind him, indicating his sainthood. Red text behind his head reads ANTIOCHIA.

Blog: Power to Punish and Authority to Forgive: Imperial State and Imprisonment in 4th-Century Antioch

Alberto De Simoni |
A window display featuring books about Greek myth, a model of the Ishtar Gate, and a large papier-mache figure of Poseidon.

Blog: First Contact: Why Middle School Ancient History is So Important

Stephen Guerriero |
A book cover with a pink and white geometrically-patterned background. In the middle stands a cartoon man with a beard, a bald head, a toga, and a walking stick. He is surrounded by stars and symbols. A small, gray dog at his feet sniffs an ant.

Blog: Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers

Krishni Burns |
An oil painting set in front of rust-colored rocks. A woman in pink drapery with her head covered approaches from a higher rock with her arms outstretched. Below, a woman in yellow and green, next to a man in black, reaches up towards her.

Blog: Persephone’s Pomegranate Seed and My 5-Year Visa

Ximing Lu |
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 |
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: Are We Orpheus or Eurydice? Singing Salvation in Popular Music

Eleonora Colli |
Photo by Christopher Trinacty and used by permission.

Blog: Music and Mythology: A Classics Playlist for the End of Summer

Christopher Trinacty |
Façade of the Celsus library, in Ephesus, near Selçuk, west Turkey. Benh Lieu Song (Image via Wikimedia under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License).

Blog: Being an Independent Scholar in Classics: Challenges and Reflections

Helen Cullyer |
Close-up of the statue base of “Silent Sam” on campus at UNC-Chapel Hill with ink and blood running down (Image by permission of the Workers Union at UNC-CH).

Blog: Removing "Silent Sam": Confederate Statues and the Misuse of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill

Kelly McArdle |