Author: Bonnie MacLachlan

Although ‘grace’ in today’s secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order–a transformative power gro …

Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive …

Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive …

From Classical Antiquity to the present, virginity has been closely allied with power: as someone who chooses a life of celibacy retains mastery over his or her body. Sexual potency withheld becomes …