Approximately 1800 years ago someone (a child or teenager) scrawled (in Greek) an insult into the plaster walls of Emperor Caligula's fo...

In the midst of discussing a textual reading at John 1:28 in his "Commentary on John" Origen of Caesarea (ca. 184 - 253 CE) wax...

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

Sometime at the end of the first or beginning of the second century CE (AD), the Roman statesman Pliny the Younger wrote to Suetonius urgi...

Recently, I have been reading through Raffaella Cribiore's " Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, " who exam...

I recently finished reading through George W. Houston's Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity . H...