An overview to DH tools for student and faculty researchers at every level. Digital humanities tools can enrich scholarship in Classical Studies by facilitating serendipitous discovery through text comparison and… Read More
For 2017-2018, the Penn Museum’s popular monthly Great Lectures Series, first Wednesday evenings October through June, focuses on the Rise of the City. Peter Struck, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at… Read More
Translation of high prestige texts such as Virgil's poems has had a significant role in creating literary language in European vernaculars and hence has sometimes served nationalistic agendas.… Read More
The Corpus Platonicum is one of the most well-known and most influential works of ancient literature. Yet, it still has unresolved challenges regarding its tetralogical form… Read More
Focusing on the moment of the hero’s death, Sophocles’ Ajax offers a brief, concentrated portrait of a variable, contested figure with diverse identities in epic and cult. Competing conceptions of Ajax are… Read More
In this paper, I share the results of recent efforts to reconstruct administrative and economic aspects of the kingdom of the Syracusan monarch Hieron II (r. 269–215 BCE). First, I examine an essential instrument of… Read More
Mention of ancient Roman gardens conjures images of lavish suburban estates outfitted with sprawling gardens containing specimen plantings from around the world, aviaries and fishponds, pergolas for outdoor dining,… Read More
In book 23, lines 213–224 of the Odyssey, Penelope explains her slowness to acknowledge Odysseus’s identity with her dread of being deceived like Helen, who, as she asserts, would not have slept with a… Read More
