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Total Number of Articles: 4
First Article on this Page: February 7, 2025
Latest Article on this Page: April 11, 2025
“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, …
