The site of Marzuolo in inland southern Tuscany, in a landscape of small farmers reconstructed by the Roman Peasant Project, highlights the precariousness of current models of the Roman rural… Read More
This paper examines current trends in the scientific study of laughter and humour—including evolutionary, cognitive and psychological theorizing and empirical research—and considers how such research may help… Read More
Modern historians of the founding principles of the United States of America have often dismissed the Revolutionaries' frequent references to Greek and Roman history, politics, philosophy, statesmen and literature as… Read More
Following a tradition of ancient commentary, some contemporary scholars have suggested that fragments from, and testimony about, Aristotle’s lost Eudemus provide strong evidence for… Read More
Our knowledge of Sophocles’ fragmentary Tereus has now been enriched by the publication of POxy. 5292, portions of which overlap with S. fr. 583 (preserved by Stobaeus). Among other things,… Read More
What can Greek and Latin literature of antiquity teach us at a moment when our entire world, or at least our polity, seems to be breaking apart? Or to sound a less apocalyptic note, when many of the principles… Read More
On Friday June 15th at 7pm Emily Wilson in conversation with Maria Dahvana Headley will discuss the challenges and pleasures in translating an ancient text into English as part of the Deep Water… Read More
