Social Media Ideas for Classics And Ancient History

Classics make a comeback in the digital age

It is a season of classics – as Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ made international headlines through the latest film adaptation by Christopher Nolan, another fan of European classics, Anne C...

Mary Beard: 'Slavery, misogyny ... the ancient world has got some pretty nasty stuff'

Renowned British classicist Mary Beard says we can all still learn from antiquity, but warns against excessive reverence.

Archaeologists In Greece Found An Ancient School Complete With Intact Benches Where Students Like Alexander The Great Li...

Recent digging at the ruins of ancient Mieza unearthed everything from a stadium to instruction rooms filled with frescoes and mosaics to multiple halls built specifically for drin...

Would you like to learn some Ancient Greek? by Caroline K. Mackenzie

Following the bumper box office success of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey this summer, online searches for ‘Learn Ancient Greek’ have soared and students of all ages are signing up fo...

Solving A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mystery: Parchment Fragments That Surprisingly Survived In The Egyptian Sands

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Roman law expert from the University of Cincinnati has edited and translated a Latin legal text that was pieced together from fragments buried i...

Study shows marvels of the Roman Empire’s road network

Augustus, ancient Rome's first emperor, placed a gilded monument called the Milliarium Aureum, or Golden Milestone, in the Roman Forum in 20 BC to mark the symbolic starting point...

A bestselling classicist embarks on a fresh odyssey

Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer, offers a series of essays that examine modern interpretations of ancient literature.

The Rec League: Classics with Happy Endings

This request is from Lara: I’m reading Jane Austen’s Bookshelf and it’s making me really curious about the classics. Something I haven’t felt in at least a decade. So it’s a really...

Sapienza, LUISS and Bocconi: where New School Rome's Class of 2026 is headed

From a British international school to Sapienza, LUISS and Bocconi: New School Rome's Class of 2026 and the path to Italian universities New School Rome teaches a fully British cu...

What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It

Latin is a language As dead as dead can be;  It killed the Romans long ago,  And now it’s killing me. That famed ditty isn’t likely to resonate with many modern school children, bu...

Ancient fragment of pocket edition of ‘Odyssey’ identified at Dutch university

A fragment of Homer’s “Odyssey,” believed to come from a pocket-size edition produced in Egypt about 1,700 years ago, has been identified in a Dutch university library, Live Scienc...

Job: Assistant Professor of Medieval History, History Department, UT-Austin

The Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2027. We seek a scholar to teach medieva...

Relive These Ancient Civilizations

From Botticelli to Beyoncé: the Ashmolean Museum’s ‘Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess’

Aphrodite. A goddess, an image, an icon. The goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality, known by the Romans as Venus, has appeared countlessly over the past 5000 years across a wide v...

Faculty Search Committee Feedback on Applications from Founding Figures of the Fields for Tenure-Track Positions

Classics Homer “This guy gave his job talk in dialects. We need someone who can teach Freshman Greek 100.” Sappho “What’s the point now that DEI initiatives have been canceled?” So...