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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 · 6 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.