In Medias Res
The Odyssey’s Victims
A college acquaintance of mine, and a trainee officer in the army, once told me he had always found something ideologically suspicious about The Odyssey. Why on earth would you glorify a hero who leaves for a war with…
Obelisk Metropolis
Dani Bostick | May 11, 2018
The Largest of Rome’s Obelisks Weighs Over 400 Tons, and Had to Be Brought 1700 Miles From Egypt — But Most Tourists Barely Notice Them
Schliemann in Space
Harrison Troyano | April 26, 2018
The World of Classics Has Its Own Version of Flat Earthers— Brought to Your Living Room by the History Channel
I Came, ISAW, I Contemplated
John Kuhner | March 23, 2018
Take a Moment to Ponder the Centuries at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World’s New “Romance and Reason” Exhibit
If Walls Could Talk: The Columns of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Amanda Reeves | March 9, 2018
Roman Cultural Recycling Per Excellentiam
A Gold Star for "The Silver Caesars"
Catherine Lambert | February 1, 2018
The mysterious silver cups known as The Aldobrandini Tazze have arrived at the Met
The Laocoon Group, or How I Came to Love the Latin Language
Amanda Reeves | January 25, 2018
the Laocoön Group
The Statue of St. Peter on Trajan's Column
Tyler Dobbs | December 22, 2017
Gibbon proceeds to praise the procedural norms and political freedom
Hannibal on Houston Street
Amy Garland | December 22, 2017
He brought war and devastation to the Mediterranean for a generation — but don’t ask him about his personal life.
"That's Latin!" A Review of the Ossa Latinitatis of Reginald Foster
Mike Fontaine | October 19, 2017
Reginaldus Thomas Foster and Daniel Patricius McCarthy