Sometimes we write longer pieces. Sometimes we have guests post longer pieces too (send Erik or Joel an email if you are interested).
“Two Ears, One Mouth”: Hunting a Proverb from Zeno to Paul’s Mom
The Horrors of Classical Studies
Paroimiai: proverbs from Ancient Greece to Star Trek
Humanizing a Monster: The Saddest Scene in Classical Literature
Antiquity for Everyone: How Classics is Misappropriated
From Homer to Game of Thrones: Atrocity in Art
Caesarian Section: Thoughts on Reception and Teaching
Classics [Itself] is Not Classist
Neither Cowards nor Nobodies: A Rant on Classics and Politics
Political Correctness: A Response
Post-Classical Intellectualism in the Latin Classroom
Martin Luther King Jr. and Socrates
Classroom Confession: I am a Terrible Teacher
Famae Volent: A Personal History
Tessered Latin and Greek: A Lexical “Wrinkle in Time”
Antiquity! (Instrumental Version)
Iliad vs. Odyssey and Their Essential Complementarity
Head and Heart: A Quotation Attributed to Aristotle
Aristotle in the Sheets but Xenophon in the Streets: A Defense of the Humanities
Aristotle Probably Didn’t Say “The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of its Parts”
Death from the Sea and Cities of Men: Odysseus and Mortality
Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: His Epithets, Names and How We Read Him
Meme Police: A Collection of Things Aristotle Did Not Say
Parenting While Teaching Greek Badly
Living Today and Talking about Death
Philology at Dinner: How I learned to Love the Classics
“This is Not my Beautiful House”: Classics, Class and Identity
Humanizing a Monster II [an album review]
The Tyranny of Ancient Thought
Reprioritizing and Reallocating: Tulsa’s Cuts to the Humanities
The Future of Classics, From “Below”
“Classics for Everyone Must Be More than a Slogan
Sharing Blame: professional Organizations and the Death of the Humanities
The Vanity of Virtue: Contemporary Pseudo-Stoicism
“Our Culture”: Classics by Exclusion
Our Culture, Anatolian Edition
A Ridiculous Post on a Ridiculous Poll: Who Shot a Man in Reno?
Spoken Latin and the Politics of Bland Triviality
A School Massacre and Toxic Heroism
Scarcity, Precarity and Simile: Reading the Iliad
From The Iliad to The Irishman
From Odysseus to Lindsey Graham
Beauty and Privilege: Latin, Paideia, and Papyri
Harry Potter and Narrative’s Numberless Worlds
Beyond Sappho: Learning and Teaching about Women Authors
A New Book and Its Many ‘Authors’
Reading Poems at the End of the World
Less Human Apart: Isolation and Civilization in Myth, Science Fiction and Real Life
Epic and Therapy: Helplessness, Loss, and Collective Trauma
Civilization and its Dissed Contents
Founding Frauds of the Role-Playing Republic
“Full of Ticks and Fleas”: The Odyssey and a Life of Pets
Teledidaskalos, Or, How I am Trying to Teach Greek in a Pandemic
We’ve Been Doing This for 10 Years: A Personal History of Sententiae Antiquae
Save the Humanities with this One Simple Trick!
Scars and Time: Trauma and Reading Homer
Polysymphony: Interpreting and Translating Homer
