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By Christopher Star Based on the ancient Greek for “uncovering” or “revelation,” today the word apocalypse conjures up images of global death and destruction that at once combine the Biblical world with the modern. The millennia-old notion of apocalypse offers...

I wrote Broken Cities because I saw that ruins were being used to shape our view of the past and even to create the “pastness” of the past. As you can see by looking at the cover illustrations of any number of Classics monographs (including Broken Cities)...

As the American Journal of Philology wraps up its 140th year of publishing, a new name stands at the top of the masthead. Joseph Farrell from the University of Pennsylvania took over as Editor earlier this year. He joined us on our podcast to talk about the...

My history with Athens Burning goes back 40 years to when I was doing research for my Ph.D. on Greek burial customs. Athens’ main cemetery, called the Cerameicus or Potters’ Quarter, lies just outside the city wall on the west side of the city. I used to go...

That’s what plenty of people who should know better have been asking us since we started work on this new edition of Women’s Life in Greece and Rome, some forty years after the first. Is there ever! The whole point of the book is the search for the hidden...

In late 2015, the Journal of Late Antiquity published a special issue on the intersections of religion, medicine, health, healing and disability in Late Antiquity. Guest edited by Kristi Upson-Saia and Heidi Marx-Wolf, the issue featured 10 essays on this...

Guest post by Michael Wolfe We were honored this spring when Michael Wolfe’s wonderful book, Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs, made the long list of nominees for the 2014 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. We were thrilled in...

Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by David F. Elmer When I first had the idea for my new book, The...

Chapter and Verse is a series where JHU Press authors and editors discuss the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. Guest post by Edward McCrorie You translate for many reasons, no doubt, but I...