Which cars redeemed themselves as classics?

Caterpillars turn into butterflies. As humans mature, they tend to grow into the best version of themselves. Or so I’d like ...

Mary Beard illuminates the ancient world — and our own — in 'Talking Classics'

As a classics professor, Beard has spent her career pondering life in the ancient world. The central question of her latest ...
The New Yorker

How Comic Books Became Classics

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of ...
Forbes

The 40 Greatest Cult Classic Movies Of All Time

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 ...
Santa Clara University

What is Classics and Ancient Studies?

Classics and ancient studies 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 and ancient ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

‘The classics are everywhere; most of us are likely just not looking for them’

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 ...