Ancient World (Classics)

If Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" has you thinking about Homer's epic, dive deeper with a curated selection of free-to-read scholarship from "Classical Antiquity" that reveals new ways to understand one of literature's greatest adventures.

Author Tara Mulder on her unique perspective as a classicist and daughter of a homebirth midwife and how she reconstructed ancient women's lost stories of childbirth and pregnancy.

From studies of fossilized pollen, which shed light on peoples’ use of the land, to the recovery of ancient human genomes, which help us reimagine group identities, social cohesion, and migration, the paleosciences now contribute regularly to the study of Late Antiquity.