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Congratulations to J. Riley Snyder and Mira Balberg, co-winners of SLA's Best Article Award.

Author Rhyne King talks about the making of the ancient Persian Empire.

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.

SLA aims to diversify the field of late ancient studies with a new mentorship program for high school and undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.

A special issue of "Studies in Late Antiquity" explores debates about urban development in the Mediterranean from the late third to seventh century.

With his trademark lyrical, witty, and accessible prose, Peter Green’s work transcended academia.

Ritual Boundaries is part of the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.By Joseph E. Sanzo, author of Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique ChristianityWhat do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid?

Following her experimental translations of Euripides in Grief Lessons (2006), Anne Carson’s recent dialogue with Euripides is amongst her boldest. The Trojan Women (2021), a graphic ‘comics poem’, and H of H Playbook (2021), an ‘explosion of thought’ in the shape of a playbook with illustrations and

By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek DramaThe cover of Seeing Theater, thoughtfully designed by my late brother-in-law and artist David Palacios, offers a succinct visual encapsulation of the book and an interesting twist on the only surviving image in c

Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and