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Number of articles: 9
First Article: October 21, 2022
Latest Article: February 6, 2026
Last spring, I wrote a column called “Dialogues of the Dead.” The premise was modest and demanding at once. Each piece took up an ancient author most readers had never seriously considered and asked what sustained attention to that work …
We begin not with a saint, but with a sinner.
We begin not with a saint but with a sinner.
That’s how Augustine would want it. The author of the “Confessions,” one of the most influential works in Christian and …
“Catullus sits in my soul.”
I wrote that line in my journal nearly three years ago, as a first-year student at Bowdoin College. I was seventeen, away from home for the first time and longing for a kind of connection …
The beginning of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” is frustratingly parochial. The entire trilogy, really—“The Oresteia”—is infamous among classicists for its difficulty in the original Greek: rare words, archaic grammar, tangled syntax that makes translation a task of genuine suffering. Translator Emily Wilson, …
There are few works as unsettling as “The Republic.” Not because of its complexity or reputation but because it refuses to let us hide from the hardest questions: What is justice? Is it even possible? And what kind of life …
“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.”
I don’t know who first wrote this. I could find out—likely by googling (though I’d use Safari, to be honest) that phrase to uncover which long-dead classicist, …
On Wednesday, the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) gathered in Daggett Lounge to discuss an upcoming meeting with President Clayton Rose, No Hate November and other future initiatives.
BSG president Susu Gharib ’23 announced an upcoming BSG assembly on December 4 …
The women’s cross country team finished seventh and the men’s cross country team finished eighth at the NESCAC Championships at Hamilton College last weekend. Bowdoin was led by Leila Trummel ’23, who earned All-NESCAC honors with her individual sixth-place finish. …
On Wednesday, the Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) hosted Director of the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and Spiritual life Oliver Goodrich who spoke about the “You Belong” initiative and a new position in the Rachel Lord Center focused on working …
