Nostalgia surrounds traditional festivals, yet the reasons for their decline remain unexamined. Modern education, laziness, ...

Are kids old enough to appreciate what they are ... learning about the Temple of Julius Caesar, the Vestal Virgins, the ...

Ayo Edebiri, the Emmy-winning actress, writer and Dorchester native, returned to her alma mater last Thursday — this time, without a rolling backpack in hand. “So, a lot’s changed,” Edebiri told an ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

Why isn’t Easter celebrated on the same day every year? The celebration of Easter is loosely associated with the Jewish ...

Julius Thedford could have continued his college ... on off-days — and he wants to bring others with him. “Memphis kids are different,” Thedford said. “I mean, you can’t really teach ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The Gospel accounts of the “two kingdoms” represented in Jesus and Caesar seem strikingly contemporary here and now.