Projects

Children occupy a unique role in every society, and Rome is no different. Within Rome, material culture like funerary monuments and ancient dolls serve to show that children could both be used to maintain the family’s current social standing or to bolster that social standing. 

The authors, through their renditions of both Athena and her acquaintances, demonstrate their knowledge of and innovation in classical myth, and while they created a book that opens classical stories to a new audience, it also has some contradictory messages for young girls.

Ancient Rome had various different imperial engagement with Greece. By looking at Sulla, Augustus, and Hadrian, it is easy to see that much of the engagement with Greece was based on the particular person in power, and this can be seen through material culture like this statue of Augustus.

The Parthenon, particularly its frieze, metopes, and order demonstrate many Athenian values but principally those of pride, piety, community.

Religious and civic life in ancient Greek were deeply intertwined, and the city was organized to demonstrate this relationship through the agora and city-wide religious festivals.

Though separated by time and space, the Ara Pacis and the Parthenon both share many similarities in its depictions and values. 

In The Odyssey, the epithet rosy-fingered dawn both hones the reader’s attention to a pivotal moment in the plot​ ​and demonstrates the passage of time and its effect on journey​.