There are gifts that bring a restitutive expansiveness to the life of the mind, and the Renata Poggioli Award is one of them. My grant proposal set out two intentions: to visit sites in Italy that had eluded previous itineraries, and to seek places that would nourish my doctoral work in Comparative Literature, where Ovid, Augustine, Dante, and Bonaventure are constant interlocutors.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will host Professor Robin Osborne for the Estelle Shohet Brettman Memorial Lecture on September 24. Professor Osborne’s lecture is
CANE members are invited to participate in Odyssey Day, a nationwide series of programs centered on Homer’s Odyssey, to be held at local public libraries and other
Call for Participants: New Perspectives on Classics and Race: A Workshop for Teachers and Researchers The Vassar College Department of Greek and Roman Studies invites
Homer is not taught in my district so last winter, thanks to a generous CANE Education Grant, Istarted an Odyssey book club. The plan was
Prepared by Kevin Ballestrini, Executive Secretary and CANE Delegate to the ACL Institute held June 27–30, 2026, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA Overview
Since it was first announced, Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey produced two opposing narratives. As is so often the case these days, it came down to conservative
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium, by Barry Strauss (Simon & Schuster, 2022) is about exactly what the
The story of Esther is fiction. There was no king Ahasuerus, or valiant woman Esther, or even her uncle Mordechai. However, it’s a very popular story and
The Acharnians by Aristophanes is a play I have never read, but like many of his plays, is anti-war. This version, edited by W. W.
