Wigmore Hall's upcoming event for International Women's Day is 'Women and Power' with classicist Mary Beard (speaker) and musicians Nardus Williams (soprano) and Elizabeth Kenny (archlute, theorbo). The title 'Women and Power' originates from Mary...

Ria Berg, Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei: Specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023). 9788891327406. Reviewed by A. Everett Beek, Case Western Reserve Un…

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

A Ph.D. Student's Reflection on a Memorable Year

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CALL FOR PAPERSRes Difficiles 7Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird and Elke Nash Date: Friday March 13, 2026Platform: Webinar Since 2020 Res D…

The following resource was compiled through the process of developing and presenting a panel on demystifying academic conferences in ancient studies fields, held in October 2025. We are deeply grat…

My review of the film as a literary scholar of Mary Shelley.

I recently interviewed Kaitlin Smith, a PhD student at UNC, about her personal experience in the academy and the role of universities in contemporary America.

Academic conferences can feel mysterious, overwhelming, or even intimidating, especially if you’re navigating them for the first time. What counts as a panel? How do you decide whether to give a pa…

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

A literary magazine devoted to the world of classics.

A book for nayone who ever thought Odysseus could have made better choices. A glowing review of L. Jenkinson-Brown’s, “You Are Odysseus”, from Carlotta Vincenzi.

Disability can be a feature of the body, but as Disability Studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has shown, it is also a material arrangement, one that can result in a “misfit” relationship…

With the world as we know it seemingly caving in around us, never has there been a better time to orient ourselves around what truly matters. Our loved ones. Our activism. Our small kindnesses to e…

Andrew Fox, Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). 9781350237803. Reviewed by Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, S…