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…
Book Review: Faelan and the Miracle Machines
AnnMarie Patterson | June 21, 2024
Abigail Palmer's debut work of YA historical fiction probes slavery and identity in the early Roman Empire.
(Pyramus and) Thisbe and I
Mark Buchan | April 17, 2024
What is it like to be a cat?
With an Ancient Song in My Heart
Mark Buchan | April 12, 2024
A Review of The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse
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A Review of Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
AnnMarie Patterson | January 29, 2024
Medusa arrives on the scene of a Classical feminist mini-genre.
Two Cuttings from Central Park
Aaron Poochigian | November 23, 2023
An excerpt from Aaron Poochigian's contemporary didactic epic, Central Park.
The Entrancing Way to Learn
Aaron Poochigian | November 23, 2023
On didactic epic and the mnemonic power of poetry.
A Review of the Iliad Translated by Emily Wilson
Mark Buchan | November 21, 2023
How Homeric language might be found or lost in translation.
Catullus: the Unbridled Emotions of Youth
James Chang | May 8, 2023
James Chang is the winner of the 2023 Living Latin in Rome High School Essay Contest.
The Creative Art of Translation
Miles Johnson | April 20, 2023
The Stories of Daedalus in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Returning to Horace
John Kuhner | January 17, 2023
"Horace and Me" Will Make You Want to Read Horace Again
Don't Look Back? Orpheus and Eurydice Today
Mark Buchan | December 13, 2022
What if it is love that makes us look backward?
From Rome to Plymouth
Tommy Nolan | November 22, 2022
Parallels between the Aeneid and America’s Early Pilgrims.