Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of ...

I learned from my high school teacher about the famous proverb, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” The proverb is said to have originated from the old Greek fabulist Aesop in his work, “The Fox and the ...

BOTANISTS and palæographers are greatly indebted to the Roxburghe Club, and especially to Capt. E. G. Spencer-Churchill, for the magnificent facsimile copy of the “Herbal of Apuleius Barbaras,” which ...

Archaeologists searching through excavated rubble at the site where Pompeii once stood in southern Italy recently discovered the remains of a small, cramped room with unique characteristics and a ...

The Cambridge classicist Mary Beard became briefly notorious in 2009 (though not for the first or last time) when she was bleeped at length on NPR for quoting an ancient Roman poem—in Latin. “Catullus ...

(invited guest editor) Special issue of Digital Philology. A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins UP, forthcoming 2020). (editor) Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the ...

The Barbary Coast of North Africa was named after the Berbers, the nomadic people who inhabited the region west of the Nile Valley in north Africa. Called the Amazigh or Imazighen in antiquity ...

Study of latin literature commonly ends with Tacitus and Juvenal, in the 120’s a.d. Interest does not revive until one comes to much later writers such as Ammianus Marcellinus and—of course—the Latin ...

This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertainty One day in 1484, strange men arrive ...

Throat lacerations, perforated organs, and pierced hearts are just some of the complications that performers can suffer when swallowing swords, but despite these dangers, only 29 deaths from this ...

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