How Roman emperors dealt with government officials abusing travel budgets
Publisher: Washington Post
Author: Catherine Rampell
An article shared on the Paideia Institute's Online Public Classics Archive
How to read a Latin poem –
Publisher: TheTLS
Author: Mary Beard
I have just spent the day at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, doing two gigs. The first was chairing a discussion with Robert Harris and Mike Poulton about the RSC adaptation of Harris’s Cicero trilogy, which is to open in Stratford in November (6 plays, shown as two groups of 3). It was a great chance …
Rome's Colosseum Is Reopening Its Upper Tiers to Visitors
Publisher: Smithsonian
Author: Ben Panko
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?
Publisher: Apollo Magazine
Author: Matthew Nicholls
Matthew Nicholls looks at changes to the management of Rome’s most important sites: the Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill, and Domus Aurea
And for my next quiet museum . . .
Publisher: TheTLS
Author: Mary Beard
The author describes her visit to the archaeological museum in Perugia.
“Human Life Is Punishment,” and Other Pleasures of Studying Latin
Publisher: The Paris Review
Author: Frankie Thomas
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where I am currently enrolled, doesn’t require you to do much of anything. Time is largely unstructured here; as long as your writing gets done, you barely have to get out of bed for two years. When I first realized this, I panicked, and then I registered for an undergraduate course in elementary Latin.
Now You Can Read the Earliest-Known Latin Commentary on the Gospels in English
Publisher: Smithsonian
Author: Jason Daley
The commentary of Italian bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia was lost for 1,500 years before it was rediscovered in 2012
The mystery of the lost Roman herb
Publisher: BBC
Author: Zaria Gorvett
Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold – but no one knows if it still exists.
X-Rays Reveal Details of Portrait Once Hidden Under Vesuvius' Ash
Publisher: Smithsonian
Author: Jason Daley
Using X-ray fluorescence, researchers have mapped the pigments used on a crumbling painting in Herculaneum