These are the posts published for the first time in 2020 that received the most views.. Certain posts about Aristotle keep getting hits, but we’ll leave that nonsense out of the mix.
- [redacted]– S. Echeverria-Fenn telling the story of her experience with Classics
- Skip Sleep & Blast Through Homer — Erik’s surprise hit with an excerpt from E.V. Blomfeld, Biographical Memoir of Joseph Justus Scaliger:
- A Vote Against Pericles is a Vote Against Plague — Flint Dibble’s fabulous essay paring down the truth from the propaganda about Pericles and the plague
- On Not Reading Homer — a response to an ongoing debate about requiring Homer for Classics majors in the UK
- Founding Frauds of the Role-Playing Republic — Erik’s barnstorming unmasking of the shallowness of early American classicism
- On Reading Homer –a response to the response to my response encouraging people not to read Homer, outlining a more holistic approach to reading Epic
- Blogging My Way to a Book —a record of how I used blogging over a five year period to help write a book
- Epic and Therapy: Helplessness, Loss, and Collective Trauma — imagine the folly of starting to think about collective trauma only a month into the US COVID19 shutdown
- Reading Poems at the End of the World — further navel gazing at the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end of the world
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A Penis on the Screen: Playing a Bard During a Plague — Joe Goodkin’s humorous and touching take on performing songs inspired by Homer at during the pandemic
