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Founders of the Race

I’m in the process of updating an old online English translation of Heliodorus for a class I’m teaching. I’m updating the 19C translation…

Dec 28, 2021

Clariclea, a princess of Ethiopia who was miraculously born white to black parents and abandoned, here returns to Ethiopia and reconciles with her parents. A painted enamel on gold, gilding, mercury-tin amalgam on rock crystal. 1650. Walters Art Museum

Dec 28, 2021

Books, they’re Gr-r-reat!

Humanities, Great Books, Classical Education, Liberal Arts

Dec 10, 2021

Tony the Tiger holding a copy of Alan Bloom’s translation of the Republic of Plato.

Dec 10, 2021

College Parrhēsia

παρρησίη belongs to freedom, but discerning the right moment (τοῦ καιροῦ) is risky. — attributed to Democritus (D344 (Loeb, p.314)=226…

Nov 28, 2021

College Parrhēsia

Nov 28, 2021

Thoughts on Grading

Inspired by having to turn in midterm grades.

Oct 19, 2021

stock image of old report card, with many columns and numbers that make little sense.

Oct 19, 2021

What’s Wrong With Being A Humanist?

I occasionally use the label “humanist” to describe myself. This behavior sets me apart from most professors of humanities, according to a…

Oct 2, 2021

Image of Erasmus

Oct 2, 2021

Summary of Roots: Tradition, Identity, Memory

Maurizio Bettini is well known among classicists. His important scholarship applying anthropological methods to Ancient Rome has been…

Jun 14, 2021

Summary of Roots: Tradition, Identity, Memory

Jun 14, 2021

Let’s not Be Political: Notes on Marks’ Conservative Case for Liberal Education

This was originally going to be a different post comparing Marks’ book with Hayot’s Humanist Reason. Although it would have made a pretty…

Apr 3, 2021

John Locke, coloured stipple engraving by James Godby after G.B. Cipriani. Wellcome Library, London (no. V0003673)

Apr 3, 2021

Reactionary Ideas, Anti-blackness, & Historismus in the FAZ Op-Ed

This post explores a few features of the contemporary discussion about classics through an analysis of Jonas Grethlein (JG)’s opinion…

Mar 13, 2021

MC Hammer: You bore us tweet. When you measure include the measurer.

Mar 13, 2021

Notes on Baddiel, Jews Don’t Count

Published in February 2021 for the Times Literary Supplement by HarperCollins, Jew’s Don’t Count is a short polemic directed primarily at…

Mar 10, 2021

Just the book cover, which is simple and has author’s name on the top, white on black; and the title below, black on white.

Mar 10, 2021

An SCS Classics Guide to Tweeting?

Two years ago, I started this blog to comment on an SCS statement about social media and anonymity. In that post, I pointed out how it…

Mar 3, 2021

An SCS Classics Guide to Tweeting?

Mar 3, 2021

Maximus Planudes

Maximus Planudes

The online pseudonym of the other online pseudonym Leopold “Poldy” Bloom. Really, tho, who I am doesn’t matter.

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