David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil.
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: Denis Feeney
Ferry’s “Aeneid” sometimes prunes lines from the Latin original, turning his translation into more of a paraphrase.
Rome’s Colosseum Was Once a Wild, Tangled Garden
Publisher: The Atlantic
Author: Paul Cooper
Rare plants and Romantic poetry tell a forgotten history of the ancient ruin.
Where Did Ancient Roman Babies Poop?
Publisher: Forbes
Author: Kristina Killgrove
What appears to be a simple question is surprisingly complicated to answer.
Camillo Honors Pizza’s Virgilian Origins
Publisher: The New Yorker
Author: Carolyn Kormann
The new Prospect-Lefferts Gardens restaurant serves pinsa, an old-timey Roman flatbread.
Latin Lesson | History Today
Publisher: History Today
Author: Katherine Mcdonald
An article shared on the Paideia Institute's Online Public Classics Archive
Assassin’s Creed Origins’ promiscuous Cleopatra is just plain wrong
Publisher: Polygon
Author: Colin Campbell
Classicists weigh in on lurid depiction of Egypt’s queen
Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Roman Plague
Publisher: The Atlantic
Author: Kyle Harper
Church records from the third century could help identify the disease that nearly killed the empire.
A Remnant From Caligula’s Ship, Once a Coffee Table, Heads Home
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: James C. Mckinley
Investigators in Manhattan seized the mosaic from the home of a collector, asserting that it had been looted from Italy decades ago.
Archaeologists Discover Perfectly Preserved 2000-Year-Old Roman Ship, 20 Other Shipwrecks in Black Sea Off Bulgaria’s Coast
Publisher: Brewminate
Author: Ivan Dikov
A perfectly preserved almost 2,000-year-old Roman ship is the most intriguing discovery from the third and final research season of the international Black Sea MAP underwater archaeology project – among a total of 20 other previously unknown ancient and medieval...
Was the fall of Rome a biological phenomenon?
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Author: Kyle Harper
Disease may have stopped the Roman renaissance dead in its tracks.