When we study William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth in Indian schools with so much enthusiasm, why can’t we study Indian classics with the same gusto? That was the question that set off Rohan ...

With the support of its long-standing academic tradition, the study of ancient Chinese classics has achieved evident development in the past 30 years. Meanwhile, encouraging progress has been made ...

Yang Liqun, a 64-year-old restorer, at the Yunnan Ancient Books Preservation Center in April. [Photo/Xinhua] Gently removing the upper and lower layers of the hardwood cover, Yang Liqun takes out a ...

Professor Michael Scott wants to dispense with one of the greatest misnomers about the study of the ancient world – that it is a subject which is no longer relevant. “There is a misconception that ...

LOS ANGELES - University of Southern California classics professor Brandon Bourgeois has translated Homer’s Greek classic, "The Iliad," for students in the 21st century. Bourgeois rapped the epic poem ...

The ancient classics of Western literature — Homer, Sophocles, Euripides — were written to be sung. But what does Greek music from 2,500 years ago actually sound like? And how could a modern reader ...

An extensive collection of Southwestern prehistoric sandals is housed in the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder. Because the sandals are ancient artifacts, researchers can ...

Amid a national decline in study of the humanities, prestigious universities are cutting their entire classics departments. As a discipline, classics may seem to fly under the radar — classics majors ...

Classical studies scholars from China and overseas participate in a ceremony to pay homage at the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong province, on Tuesday. WANG YINING/FOR CHINA DAILY With the ...