ANIKA PRATHER Why the loss of one Classics department would be such a loss for the discipline.
Month: May 2021
Why a New Edition of The Golden Ass?
PETER SINGER Apuleius' amazing novel and animal rights in the Roman Empire.
Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Measure of All Things
PABLO IRIZAR What lies behind the world's most famous sketch?
Greeks, Romans, Monks, and Murder: the Chaotic History of Football in Britain
Episodes from the riotous tale of how football came to be.
The Long and the Short of Latin Poetry
DAVID BUTTERFIELD How the Romans used the Greeks to reinvent poetry.
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre
DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.
The Ghost of Classics Yet to Come
STEPHEN FRY Classics is dead; long live Classics!
Reading Greek Literature with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
EDWARD M. HARRIS Surveying slavery in Ancient Greece through the lens of pre-Civil-War America.
Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL The rich rewards of reading between - and beneath - the lines of ancient texts.
Catullus on the Cover: Sparrows Go Cheap
ISOBEL WILLIAMS The challenge of illustrating the poems of Catullus.
What is Philosophy? The Islamic Reception of a Greek Idea
FITZROY MORRISSEY What did the "Philosopher of the Arabs" make of Plato?
Hell-to-men? Helen and Her Magic Names
ELลปBIETA WESOลOWSKA What should we call the most enigmatic figure in Greek literature?
Tacitus on the Thrill of Writing
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Why we write, according to Rome's greatest historian.
The “Newer Naso” Competition Winners
THE NEWER NASO The First Antigone Competition
Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency
ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?
“My Inquisitive Girlish Gaze”: How Women Speak in Greek Drama
IMOGEN STEAD How can we find 'real' female speech in all-male drama?