In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of beginnings and endings, "doors opening and closing, eras beginning and ending," says Paula Boggs, A&S '81. It was that duality that Boggs had in mind when ...

As this tired old earth trudges to the end of another year and the beginnings of a new one, in pagan thought, we shall pass under the dominion of one of ancient Rome’s greater and often unappreciated ...