I was recently gifted Simon Gathercole's new translation of "The Apocryphal Gospels" published by Penguin Classics (2021). I h...

Raffaella Cribiore is Professor at New York University and specializes in ancient Greco-Roman education, papyrology, and Greek rhetoric amon...

A boy recites a lession to a tutor, 2nd cen. AD A previous post brought attention to the low literacy levels of the Roman world and the...

The ability to read and write are much more widespread and common place today than they were in antiquity. The population of Rome during the...