“Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them unreadable. A volunteer army of nerds has been racing to decipher them.”
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Monsters, Mothers, Mulieres: A Reading List on The Women of Classical Antiquity
Five stories of ambitious empresses, fearsome gladiators, and ordinary working-class residents — glimmering snapshots of the female experience in the classical world.
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He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta “believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.”
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The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English
How classicist Emily Wilson cut through centuries of literary tradition to produce a fresh verse epic.