At Cheever Books, a rare and used bookstore that’s been selling printed pieces of the past for more than 30 years, things tend to move at the speed of history. But one type of book all but flies off ...

But now Caecilius is in trouble with school textbooks featuring the Roman character being rewritten following complaints about his ownership of “happy slaves”. The Cambridge Latin Course books have ...

Edith Hamilton and the popularization of the classics. A new biography of Edith Hamilton tells the story of how and why ancient literature became widely read in the United States. The discipline of ...

Latin inscriptions from the ancient world can tell us about Roman emperors’ decrees and enslaved people’s thoughts – if we can read them. Now an artificial intelligence tool is helping historians ...

The discipline of “classical” literature has long been associated with social gatekeeping. The mastery of Latin and ancient Greek—or at least enough of an acquaintance to be able to trot out a ...