Loci in Locis

Dawn Mitchell Revisits The Reginaldus Experience Almost Thirty Years Later

The Latest Metamorphosis of the Mausoleum Opens to Visitors

On The Road, You Don’t Expect To Come Across Latin Written By Someone You Know

The Prison Graffiti of the Nazi Via Tasso Prison in Rome

Metaphor Becomes Concrete Beneath Michelangelo’s Dome

Rome Normally Hums With Visitor Buzz. Now It’s Changed.

Only A Few Score Ancient Greek Temples Still Exist. Which Are The Best?

An Inscription in the Roman Forum Disguises — But Also Highlights — A Game-of-Thrones-Style Murder

King Tut Saw It in Thebes; Constantine Tried to Bring It to Constantinople; Hypatia Might Have Seen It in Alexandria

The first time I entered Pompeii through the Piazza Anfiteatro gate, I rushed towards the ancient amphitheater with my Living Latin in…

On Murmurations of Starlings and Other Auguries Ancient and Modern

Emma Wynne Takes Us Down the Via Appia with Linus, Procopius, Byron, and Jerome

Fresh from my Living Latin in Rome trip in July of 2018, I left two weeks later for the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia to see my extended…

If you go to just about any western city, major or minor, you will find yourself surrounded by classical architecture and motifs. I…

On Mithraism and its Discontents

Gaul, Rome, and France All Meet in This Delightful Corner of Provence

What Precisely Is On Display With This Most Famous of Ancient Statues?

Roman Law, the Modern University, the Papacy, and the Renaissance All Owe a Debt to this Power Broker Who Slumbers in St. Peter's

The Largest of Rome’s Obelisks Weighs Over 400 Tons, and Had to Be Brought 1700 Miles From Egypt — But Most Tourists Barely Notice Them

It’s One of the Most Familiar Buildings of Ancient Rome — But Who Built It and Why?

Hadrian Meets Bernini on Rome’s Most Storied Bridge

Roman Cultural Recycling Per Excellentiam

My relationship with Latin evolved so gradually that it is difficult to pinpoint a single moment when I knew I wanted to study it for the…

“If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and…