Pompeiian Graffiti

March 31, 2016
Ancient graffiti in Pompeii, in the style typical for a political campaign. (Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Flickr)
Ancient graffiti in Pompeii, in the style typical for a political campaign. (Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Flickr)

Rebecca Benefiel, professor of Classics at Washington and Lee (and Harvard Classics alumna, PhD '05) talks to The Atlantic about her work mapping and analyzing the graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum.