UCLA receives $5 million to establish center for the study of Hellenic culture
The grant will enable scholars to pursue new research, develop state-of-the-art digital resources and forge international collaborations.
How Roman emperors dealt with government officials abusing travel budgets
An article shared on the Paideia Institute's Online Public Classics Archive
Rome's Colosseum Is Reopening Its Upper Tiers to Visitors
For the first time in four decades, the public will be able to enter the top levels of Rome’s amphitheater...
Will the reform of Rome’s ruins be an improvement?
Matthew Nicholls looks at changes to the management of Rome’s most important sites: the Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill, and Domus...
Love, Blood And The Ancient History Of The Color Red
Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way...
Greek Horse Races, Politics, and Identity
In the second contribution to our series on horse races in Antiquity, Sebastian Scharff sets out to answer the question...
Cover designs & 'Corbyn the Barbarian' –
I’ve been spending a few days working on a new book, which is a version of the two lectures I...
Archaeologists home in on Homeric clues as Turkey declares year of Troy
Work is accelerating at site on Hisarlık Hill, formerly a ‘ruin of a ruin’, and a museum will open next...
And for my next quiet museum . . .
The author describes her visit to the archaeological museum in Perugia.
Football fans and eunuch priests –
Before I went to Madrid a couple of weeks ago, I had heard about the eighteenth-century statue and fountain of...