Contrary perhaps to expectation, Classical studies is at the vanguard of the latest technological developments for using digital tools and computational techniques in research. This article outlines its pioneering adoption of digital tools and methods, and investigates how the digital medium is helping to transform the study of Greek and Latin…[Read more]

‘Seconds’ (1966) is the third film in what has been called John Frankenheimer’s paranoia trilogy, the first two installments of which are The ‘Manchurian Candidate’ (1962) and ‘Seven Days in May’ (1964). It is the story of a middle-aged banker who abandons family and career, purchasing from the secretive Company a new identity, vocation and…[Read more]

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, serves as a template for George Nolfi’s story about the tensions surrounding fulfillment in private versus public life. A romance-thriller with science fiction overtones, the film is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story, The Adjustment Team. In Nolfi’s version,…[Read more]

The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting for leisurely and intellectual pursuits. But how did these advanced buildings come…[Read more]

Book review of G. Pucci and C. Mascione (Eds), Manifattura ceramica etrusco-romana a Chiusi:

Book review of R. Roth. Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy