Where Do Works of Art Belong? An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps" Megan Gafford 27 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps The Ancient Greek sculptures are a bellwether of where the “decolonization” of museums is headed. James Kierstead 11 Jan 2024 · 14 min read
The Male Obsession with Ancient Rome We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look. Stewart Slater 12 Oct 2023 · 9 min read
Our Lost Classical Learning The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past. Brian Kaller 5 Sep 2023 · 7 min read
Making Homer and Vergil Optional at Oxford Won't 'Diversify' Classics Most of us in Classics presumably read some Homer and/or Vergil at some point during our undergraduate careers, at least in translation, but there is no mandate that we do so. Solveig Lucia Gold 24 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction. Mary Frances Williams 26 Feb 2019 · 20 min read
Is Western Civilization a Thing? Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing. James Kierstead 11 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
From To Kill A Mockingbird to Ballet Shoes: A Plea to Save Children’s Literature Reading is a gateway to empathy and understanding. Carla Wilson 12 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
