Collection of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman-era artifacts discovered at Egypt’s Heracleopolis

The finds include the ruins of a Roman basilica and Doric temple, the head of a marble statue of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, ...
Greek Reporter

The Different Hairstyles of Men in Ancient Greece and What They Meant

In Ancient Greece, men expressed status, masculinity, political preferences, and warrior identity across the centuries ...
Greek Reporter

World’s Oldest Toothpaste Recipe Found in Egypt Reveals Ancient Greek Dental Secrets

A papyrus housed in Vienna contains the world's oldest surviving toothpaste recipe in Ancient Greek, proving dental care was ...
Smith College

Classical Studies

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...
The New Yorker

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate student at New York ...
America Magazine

A defense of learning Latin and Greek (Also: Why does it even need defending?)

There is no assessment more objective than a written exam in an ancient language. Such a test measures recall of and facility with a language that exists only on the printed page, one governed by a ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Review of ‘The Classical Greek Reader’, ‘Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World’

Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World At 3 o'clock one summer morning, a young classics scholar was crashing around in the ...