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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)...

The summer of 2000 was a formative period in my life. I had just finished my freshman year as an Archaeology and Classical Studies double major at the University of Evansville and traveled to Rome on my first study abroad trip. I remember riding a bus in Rome...

Komoidia (“party song”) was a type of play invented to mimic tragedy at the festival of the God Dionysus in 486 BC, and by mid-century it was as popular as its dignified ancestor. You may have heard of Aristophanes, but he was only one of many creators of...