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Fun fact about the past: I am old enough to remember hearing about this new company, which would send you rental DVDs in the mail, and you could keep them as long as you wanted without late fees; then, when you sent the DVD back, they sent you the next movie on your “queue.” Fast …

This post was written by student Bailey Evans, as part of her Fall 2024 Honors Project in CLAS-A 301 Classical Archaeology. More about Bailey at the end of the post. The Ancient world remains a mystery. Modern scholars will continue to dedicate years to furthering our current understanding of classical civilizations, but there will always …

Wow. As our loyal readers know, a few months back the trailer for Gladiator II dropped, and I blogged about how it was sorta confusing and all over the place. Apparently, the promotion machine for the movie read that post and said “Hold my non-diluted-wine-we-aren’t-wimpy-Greeks-here.” Because a new trailer for Gladiator II has just been …

If there is one thing we know about undergraduate students, it is that they are enthralled by the administrative minutia of the university system. So we are happy to announce that your favorite (and only) IU-Indianapolis Classical Studies Program has moved from its home in the World Languages and Cultures Department, to its new home …

Holy Gladiators, Batman! As everyone connected to the internet now knows, Gladiator II, the not-awaited sequel to Gladiator, will be riding into your movie theater arena in November. But you don’t have to wait until then to get your fix of “always fighting to the death, although that is a terrible business model to kill off at …

It’s finally here! Twenty-four years after absolutely no one watched Gladiator and thought “Now that is a movie that needs a sequel!,” the trailer for Gladiator II has dropped, and it is…something. Maybe all the things? For those of you who weren’t part of the movie-going public in the year 2000, the original Gladiator slammed into theaters …

This is a summer of travel for Classical Studies faculty: Dr. Andy Findley went to Rome, and I, Dr. Liz Thill, unintentionally took a tour of small towns in upstate New York with classically inspired names (places visited or at least spotted: Seneca Falls, Ovid, Aurelius, Romulus, Camillus, Marcellus, Macedon, Palmyra, Tyre, Cato, and Victory). …

At the time of writing, Dr. Andy Findley is escorting a group of IU-Indy students through Rome as part of Herron’s Italian study abroad experience. Presumably, he at some point shared their itinerary with me (Dr. Thill), but I don’t remember, because my life is chaos and my mind is an often-cleaned whiteboard with no …

It’s been a banner year for our IU-Indianapolis Classical Studies Professors: five faculty members received promotions and prestigious prizes. As our semester draws to a close, we take the time to celebrate our faculty’s achievements, in the great tradition of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, who deeply, deeply believed that nothing was more important than …

This post was written by student Bailey Evans, as part of her Spring 2024 Honors Project in CLAS-C 414 Art and Archaeology of the Roman World. More about Bailey at the end of the post. Let me preface this post by saying that I would never promote stealing. However, the Romans really seemed to exemplify …