Editor’s note: This is part of a Summer Reading Series featuring notable books, author Q&As and more. Patrice Rankine is a professor in the Department of Classics and the College and a writer. In ...

Classics in the broad sense is the interdisciplinary study of all aspects of the life and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and their Mediterranean context. Classics courses are offered in a wide ...

For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

HarperCollins has announced plans to “commemorate the 250th anniversary of American independence” with its new American Classics series, to be published next spring. “From our 50-year relationship ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: ...

For the purposes of this article, classics are defined as literary works that “meet some common high standards for quality, appeal, longevity, and influence.” “Classics are still important to read and ...

In November, 2024, on the day of the U.S. Presidential election, Tim Whitmarsh landed in Beijing, jet-lagged and disoriented. It was the middle of the academic term at the University of Cambridge, ...

Every movie lover has a favorite “cult classic.” Sometimes called “cult films” or “cult movies,” there is no one definition of a “cult film,” but most broadly, they are films with a dedicated fanbase ...