A fight over all things visible and invisible, featuring practical magic, empire, and terrible men. By Soraya Field Fiorio.

The Measure of Homer bounds acrobatically backwards and forwards across the centuries, from the aristocratic Greek symposium of the sixth century BC to Christian Gdanmaa in the fifth century AD. By Peter Thonemann.

Sam Argyle reviews "Not All Dead White Men," in which Donna Zuckerberg critiques the decontextualized use of classical texts.

Diogenes Laertius compiled the sole extant work from antiquity that gives anything like a comprehensive picture of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy. He may have been a flaming mediocrity. He may have been credulous and intellectually shallow. He may have produced a scissors-and-paste job cribbed from other ancient sources. But those other sources are lost, which makes what Diogenes Laertius left behind, to quote the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “truly priceless.” By Jim Holt.

Caroline Alexander explores how Homer’s epic poem helped redefine the way we worship – and what the ancient Greek tale can still tell us about war. By Caroline Alexander.

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How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual. By Charlotte Higgins.

Seneca is revered as a Stoic philosopher—but he was devoted to money and power, and worked as a fixer for Nero. Elizabeth Kolbert weighs the evidence.(Feb. 22, 2015)

London’s Loot: The Legacy of Robin Symes. By Howard Swains.

From the Atlantic to the Euphrates, from the Rhine and the Danube to the edge of the Sahara, Rome transformed and refashioned the cultures it absorbed, and we live today with the aftermath of its conquests.

Where and how did the ancient Greeks gain the wealth with which to build a culture that became central to the modern world? By Josiah Ober.

The dazzling thought-world of the Greeks gave us our ideas of democracy and happiness. Yet learning classics tends to be restricted to the privileged few. It’s time for ‘elitist dinosaurs’ to embrace a citizens’ classics for all.

Graffiti etched into walls of the ancient city of Aphrodisias reveals life some 1,500 years ago, including gladiator combat, chariot racing and religious fighting.

Colin Burrow reviews “Homer: ‘The Iliad’” translated by Peter Green.