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

Roman scribe with his stylus and tablets on his tomb stele at Flavia Solva in Noricum In Book 6, Letter 5 to his friend Ursus, Pliny the You...

While reading through 1 Clement in Greek, I came across an interesting phrase, "Therefore let us abandon empty and futile thoughts, a...

Because there were no copyright laws and books stores in the Greco-Roman world, texts were primarily circulated through social contacts (see...

In about 403 CE two  men, Sunnias and Fretela wrote to Jerome asking for an explanation as to why there were so many differences between the...

A previous post discussed the importance of reading out a text in the proper manner in elite literate circles of Greco-Roman society. It ...

6th cen. fresco discovered beneath the Lateran Chapel in Rome, probably part of the ancient Lateran library The previous article discu...

I have recently befriended a 92 year old World War Two veteran of the Army's  First Infantry Division. Because he entered the service ea...