From the Washington Post : “Not far from the walls of Enna, there is a deep pool,” begins Ovid’s version of the rape of Persephone. “Whi...

A professor studying Jane Austen is breaking new ground in our understanding of the differences between casual and close reading. The diffe...

Over the dozen or so years that our "classics group" has been meeting in Sarasota, we've evolved a practice that has worked w...

Deucalion's speech to Pyrrha is remarkable for several reasons. In it one hears a note that will return at various moments in later cent...