Graduate Center CUNY Classics

09/18/2026

"Five of the inscriptions are votives, tributes dedicated to a goddess reverentially called Domina..."

Best known for its Paleolithic art, Valencia’s Cova de les Dones also contains a Roman sanctuary where researchers say women appear to have played an active role in the worship of a female deity

09/15/2026

Friday September 18th from 4-6pm EST
CUNY Graduate Center

ANYONE can come-- please tell your high school and college students

The NYCC's Fall Lecture features the brilliant Dr. Bronwen L. Wickkiser of the CUNY The Graduate Center, CUNY and Hunter College

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Brooklyn College Classics

09/15/2026

"These pieces add to our understanding of imperial law under two emperors, Constantius II and Julian the Apostate, who ruled between 337 and 363, Wibier said."

A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years. What's less surprising? It's about taxes.

09/14/2026

"If “the pestilence persists”, Columella recommends remedies including garlic soaked in warm oil."

Greek and Roman writers were already asking how birds became sick, what signs to look for, and what could be done when disease appeared in them.

09/11/2026

PhD Candidate Ivan Maiorov writes: "More photos of my Mycenaean armor (scale shirt, pauldrons, gorget, and belt). It’s been arranged similar to a Greek trophy."

09/10/2026

"Sea of Treasures asks scholars and readers to reconsider the ways we’ve long approached the history of this trade route and its impacts."

In ‘Sea of Treasures,’ UChicago historian Jeremy A. Simmons explores how commerce on the Indian Ocean reshaped Roman ideas of luxury and identity

09/09/2026

"Accented with splashes of purple and pink — the former alluding to the Tyrian dye that only the emperor could wear — the exhibition foregrounds the unprecedented influence that women held during Trajan’s reign."

An exhibition makes a case for the sensuality of these marble sculptures, recreating the perfumes and balms that once adorned them.

09/08/2026

See here for upcoming Fall 2026 events at Columbia University's Classics Department.

https://classics.columbia.edu/events

09/07/2026

"...the hull was coated with conifer-derived pitch, and one sample contained a mixture of pitch and beeswax."

Traces of pine tar and beeswax preserved on the vessel reveal the painstaking techniques shipbuilders millennia ago used to protect their ships from the briny deep

09/04/2026

"Archaeologists found a ​mosaic depicting a dolphin, a fish, a lobster and a ⁠crab surrounding a large two-handled vase, as well as the remains ​of a painted ceiling decorated with large red and blue circles."

Archaeologists have uncovered a second-century building with mosaics and frescoes near the Colosseum that may have been barracks used by ancient ​Roman firefighters, the city's archaeological office said on Wednesday.