A Classics and Ancient History Blog

Latin has long been argued by contemporaries to be a useless language. That the only worth of learning Latin is for a brief time it increa...

 Courtesy:KendraMillerPhotography The second installation of the Hunger Games: Catching Fire broke the November box office record wi...

In understanding the culture and lifestyles of the ancient Romans, we should look to their holidays to both their gods, monuments, and nati...

This week we will be learning  Roman Numerals and their Latin names, so that later this month we can learn how to write dates in Latin using...

In this post, I argue that the portrayal of birds found on certain Ancient Greek steles is more than a mere representation of a pet. The a...

Social media is so old even the Romans had it. As individuals of the generation that use Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and any sort of ...