USC Dornsife News

Double majoring in history and archaeology, Sean Silvia gives cheeky but fact-filled lessons on the buildings of the ancient world in a series of YouTube videos. [2¾ min read]

Political junkie, Latin scholar and sketch comedy performer Austin Peay is the first-ever politics editor for USC Annenberg Media. He graduates this year with a double-major in classics and law, history and culture. [4½ min read]

Just press play to watch exceptional scholarship, service and achievement in action from this year at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

History has no laugh track, so how do we measure our changing conceptions of happiness through the ages? [10 min read]

Assistant Professor of Classics Brandon Bourgeois uncovers relevance in The Iliad — and raps to tell about it. [4 min read]

The former longtime chair of the Department of Classics produced groundbreaking scholarship on Roman rhetoric, literature and philosophy. [4 ½ min read]

U.S. law says the president can't be indicted, an echo of ancient Roman law. The efforts Roman leader Julius Caesar made to maintain his immunity is a cautionary tale for America's political system.

The great thinkers of ancient Athens were ahead of their time, say USC President C. L. Max Nikias and administrator Robin Romans, who teach a class on literary legends.