Column: New texts reveal ancient priorities
Numerous news outlets have recently announced that scientists have improved technology to read Greek scrolls using medical X-rays.
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Numerous news outlets have recently announced that scientists have improved technology to read Greek scrolls using medical X-rays.
I find it curious that there exist no widely-reputed public intellectuals in the humanities of the same caliber of science advocates Neil deGrasse Tyson or Bill Nye.
"The Millennial Classicist" on outer space and human achievement
I spent last weekend touring Washington, D.C. and was inundated by the superabundant national pride and plethoric memorialization to a degree I haven’t experienced since visiting Rome.
"The Millennial Classicist" on sex and death
In high school I had two impactful but contradictory encounters with Classics, the study of Greco-Roman art, literature, language and culture. The first was in the context of a European history class, when the textbook recounted that classicism was in vogue in the late-Renaissance French royal court.