The Oaks News

Patricia Vigderman encounters startling contradictions in Rome

Lewis Hyde talks butterflies, Buddhism, and the problem of the unforgettable

Zeus is destiny (and other keys to understanding Homer)

Patrick Mullins sees diversity, conflict, politics, and coca in an ancient frontier landscape

Gina Buckley looks for skeletal traces of elite and working-class immigration at Teotihuacan

Dutch Golden Age masterpiece loaned to Dumbarton Oaks

Zeynep Kezer studies Elazığ, Tunceli, and the making of modern Turkey from the margins

John Mulhall finds medieval translators who sought to remedy Latin deficiency with Greek and Arabic texts

Annette Giesecke finds Near Eastern inspiration for luxurious ancient Roman gardens