When we study William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth in Indian schools with so much enthusiasm, why can’t we study Indian classics with the same gusto? That was the question that set off Rohan ...

San Diego’s Globe Theatre, known largely for Shakespearean productions, is seeking to raise $2.5 million to create an Institute for Classical Theatre, which would bring ancient dramas to its stages ...

Professor Michael Scott wants to dispense with one of the greatest misnomers about the study of the ancient world – that it is a subject which is no longer relevant. “There is a misconception that ...

Once upon a time, classics was viewed by the Western world as the strongest educational foundation, a portal to a civilized life and a high-level career. But even when I majored in Ancient Greek many ...

On Thursday at the Yale University Art Gallery, Diana Kleiner, a professor of Classics, referenced the iconic line from the critically acclaimed movie “Dirty Dancing.” “Nobody puts baby in a corner,” ...

LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California classics professor Brandon Bourgeois has translated Homer’s Greek classic, "The Iliad," for students in the 21st century. Bourgeois rapped the epic poem ...

Saskia Lacey, illus. by Sernur Isik. Quarto/Walter Foster Jr., $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-63322-098-0 Classic authors meet dinosaurs in this idiosyncratic mashup. Lacey profiles six prehistoric ...

C. L. Max Nikias (@uscpres on Instagram) is president of theUniversity of Southern California. He holds faculty appointments in both electrical engineering and the classics. He is a member of the ...

At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth. Renowned for their literacy, the city's residents left behind stacks of cuneiform ...

A Greek cultural historian and philologist with special interests in the construction and maintenance of regional, ethnic and gender identities in Archaic and Classical Greece. Current interests ...

When a student recently skipped Seth Schein's class on Sophoclean drama for the immigration protest in Sacramento, the classics professor believed he had achieved "that teachable moment." Not only was ...