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September Brings Ancient Drama to the Getty Villa

The Malibu Dionysia

Mercedes Barletta |
Roman Law, the Modern University, the Papacy, and the Renaissance All Owe a Debt to This Power Broker Who Slumbers in a Little-Noticed Corner of St. Peter’s

Dux Femina Facti: Matilda di Canossa
Gabriel Kuhl |
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

Obelisk Metropolis
Danielle Bostick |
The World of Classics Has Its Own Version of Flat Earthers— Brought to Your Living Room by the History Channel

Schliemann in Space
Harrison Troyano |
Take a Moment to Ponder the Centuries at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World’s New “Romance and Reason” Exhibit

I Came, ISAW, I Contemplated
John Kuhner |
Roman Cultural Recycling Per Excellentiam

If Walls Could Talk: The Columns of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Amanda Reeves |
The mysterious silver cups known as The Aldobrandini Tazze have arrived at the Met

A Gold Star for "The Silver Caesars"
Catherine Lambert |
the Laocoön Group

The Laocoon Group, or How I Came to Love the Latin Language
Amanda Reeves |
Gibbon proceeds to praise the procedural norms and political freedom

The Statue of St. Peter on Trajan's Column
Tyler Dobbs |
He brought war and devastation to the Mediterranean for a generation — but don’t ask him about his personal life.

Hannibal on Houston Street
Amy Garland |