Many of today’s visitors who flock to Bath in the west of England do so because of Jane Austen. The great novelist (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, etc.) lived in Bath (although she never ...

As with every humanities discipline, classics has responded to Black Lives Matter with justifiable introspection. As the study of the ancient world, and particularly that of the Mediterranean cultures ...

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

When French archaeologists first began digging into the baked earth of their new colonial empire in Algeria in the mid-19th century, they fancied that they'd found kindred spirits in the Roman Empire ...