The installation in the Markell Gallery explored the Renaissance and its relationship to ancient Greek and Roman culture. Artists and craftsmen of the Renaissance drew inspiration directly from works ...

Whether it's to start analyzing a detail or impressing someone in conversation, understanding a classical building begins with an awareness of the different classical orders of architecture. In the ...

Candidates for the degree in Classical Antiquity who intend to be examined in Latin translation create their own reading list, which must be approved by the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies. The ...

The author of a sweeping re-examination of Western history reveals the global reach of Greek and Roman antiquity Naoíse Mac Sweeney - Author, The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives Examples of ...

In impromptu remarks delivered following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy called on Americans to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of ...

Classical Studies encompasses all the social, material, and intellectual culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, as they can be studied both in the original languages and in English. The ...

The traditional view of Shakespeare was that he knew very little about classical literature. Ben Jonson, his fellow playwright, famously wrote that his friend had "small Latin and less Greek." ...

People living 2,000 years ago had beliefs and practices that were quite similar to — as well as quite different from — those inhabiting Earth today, Barbette Spaeth constantly reminds her students.

When an Irish poet and an English illustrator set out to dust off Greco-Roman tales with homoerotic undertones, they were not hard up for options (or for overtones, for that matter). By Maggie Lange ...