The NYU Classics Department will be hosting this fall's Latinfest on Friday, November 21. Our text will be Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae, and Penn students will be responsible for running the… Read More
Full of erotic spice and charm, the late antique collection of Aristaenetus’ fictitious letters was the work of a gifted litterateur of ca. 500 A.D., who drew on a wealth of classical and post-classical models. Long… Read More
Running throughout fifteenth-century Italian intellectual life was a debate: what was the nature of that Latin language? Was it an "artificial" language — one with its own, notionally permanent rules? Or was it a "… Read More
Modern concerns with the environment and the place humans occupy in the natural world have led to better understanding of the complex ways in which humans interact with and construct space. How do we map the… Read More
The Greek god Hermes and his Roman counterpart Mercury were worshipped in cults that appear to focus on sexuality and were involved in numerous amatory myths. But their roles in cult and myth is rather different from… Read More
