It’s been roughly five centuries since the Aeneid was first translated into English—but there’s no sign of the work getting stale. Classics professor Shadi Bartsch’s new translation is evidence enough ...

Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer would like to abolish the siloed nature of knowledge and embrace the interdisciplinarity of the humanities and sciences. For the broad scope of her scholarship and ...

Antiquity’s “dead white men” may have fallen out of favor on woke campuses, but philosophy is thriving in the Middle Kingdom. In her new book, Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese ...

Gladiator II hasn’t been released yet, but its trailer is already giving historians much to talk about. Dr. Shadi Bartsch, a classics professor who has written several books on ancient Rome, bluntly ...

The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate ...

University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer married Shadi Bartsch, a classics professor, in a private ceremony in Aspen, Colo., last week, and the university has put in place provisions to avoid any ...