There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

Sarah Ruden is a leading translator of ancient literature, including the Gospels and the "Aeneid". In an age where attention spans are decreasing and reliance on digital media is becoming increasingly ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Federal authorities on Tuesday announced the forfeiture of a 3,500-year-old clay tablet containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered one of the oldest ...

I am a woman and a classics professor, teaching the ancient texts of Greece and Rome — in other words, works by the original "dead White men." Some teachers argue that texts once read by elites or ...

Edith Hamilton and the popularization of the classics. A new biography of Edith Hamilton tells the story of how and why ancient literature became widely read in the United States. The discipline of ...

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University.This article originally appeared in Th e Conversation. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 ...

British singer-songwriter and actor, Johnny Flynn understands why the Fall of Civilizations podcast gained such popularity during the pandemic. “I find it hilarious that we take comfort in learning ...

In the legend of Odysseus, the hero hails from Ithaca, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. The myth was famously told by the Ancient Greek poet Homer in The Odyssey and first written down sometime in ...