Cornell College Classical Studies Program

06/21/2023

Yet another reason to visit Rome.

Tourists in the city will be able to examine the spot where the Roman dictator was said to have been murdered

06/20/2023

A half-dozen books about amazing women from antiquity.

Jane Draycott shares the 5 best books on amazing ancient women by amazing modern women. Have you read Helen of Troy?

07/21/2021

The Tokyo Olympics open today. How much do you know about the ancient Olympics?

The 2020 Olympics, postponed because of COVID19, are due to start this week in Japan. They might be cancelled again, but the athletes have been training hard and Sarah E. Bond and I talked about th…

07/16/2021

Celebrating two classical studies students who have just completed the Cornell Summer Research Institute. Ryan Ringold created a historical reconstruction of the Labors of Heracles on the metopes of Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Lincoln Dalleska researched intersex and transgender themes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Congratulations!

05/20/2021

The power of ritual and Greek tragedy for healing.

The rituals of ancient Greece – especially public performances of tragic plays – have remarkable resonance with the current moment.

04/01/2021

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/04/01/social-distancing-in-the-field-be-goats-not-sheep-3/

Varro, On Agriculture 2. 9-11 “What can I say about the health of animals that are never healthy? There’s only this: the masters of the flock have special written instructions on what treatments to…

03/14/2021

Beautiful virtual reconstruction of a Pompeian thermopolium.

Animación 3D de una reconstrucción virtual llevada a cabo a partir de fotografías originales de Luigi Spina / Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inspirada en la c...

03/08/2021

Did you suspect there were so many?

In our now annual tradition, we are re-posting this list with more names and updated links. Most of the evidence for these authors has been collected only in Wikipedia. I have added new translation…

03/07/2021

An interview with Shadi Bartsch, who has just published a new translation of the Aeneid.

How Virgil plays with our collective memory

02/27/2021

How do you like trying new condiments?

This fermented sauce has been described as "the ketchup of the gods" and the great-grandfather of Worcestershire

02/23/2021

Yesterday before the career panel, we were discussing how the field of classics is becoming more self-aware how its history has frequently left out underrepresented groups in the Roman world. This blogpost does a nice job helping us think through what this might look like.

by Nandini Pandey What an ancient empire can teach us about diversity