Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

Epic poetry in Ancient Rome served as a foundational medium for exploring collective identity, moral values and political ideology. From the Augustan epic that forged a new Rome through divine lineage ...

Literature, and especially imaginative literature, is the exponent of the life of a people, and we must still go to it for our most intimate knowledge. No careful antiquarian research can reproduce ...

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 ...