Classics Club Ideas from Milton Academy
January 28, 2026
Who would make a better freshman year roommate, Zeus or Athena? We are kicking off our Classics Club this fall by asking students to debate
Who would make a better freshman year roommate, Zeus or Athena? We are kicking off our Classics Club this fall by asking students to debate
You need to be away from your Intermediate or Advanced class for a day or two – what can you do? I found that especially
Perhaps of interest for anyone teaching Vergil’s Aeneid: Troy Reborn: The Journey of Aeneas, is a retelling of Vergil’s work that presents opportunities to debate
The Department of Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference 2026 at Boston University, entitled “Cupido regnandi: Lust for Power in the Ancient Mediterranean World,” seeks to
Coming from a school where English and Chinese were the only options for a second language, the word “Latin” was nothing more than a foreign
Why did Virgil write the Aeneid? Why did he want it destroyed at his death? What do scholars have to say about this? Was it
Thalia Pandiri, who taught classics at Smith College for 56 years, died in a fire at her home in Northampton on December 17. She was a former
A friend gave me an article from the Wall Street Journal about a computer program, Aeneas, which is being used to figure out damaged inscriptions
This will be the last “mythological puzzle” that we’ll do in this series of blog posts. Next year, I’ll be offering some thoughts about how
Classics: the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature and the languages they were originally written in, or more broadly, the study of the Ancient