Column: New texts reveal ancient priorities
By Del Maticic | Jan. 22, 2015Numerous news outlets have recently announced that scientists have improved technology to read Greek scrolls using medical X-rays.
Numerous news outlets have recently announced that scientists have improved technology to read Greek scrolls using medical X-rays.
In spite of the myriad published vindications, there is no chief apologist for the liberal arts.
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, heavenly bodies were not the sorts of objects to which one anchors a craft.
Memorializing a single narrative reduces lived complexity and imposes a deceptive linearity the readiest side effect of which is a sense of national exclusivism.
We in America would be hard-pressed to describe our funerary mourning practicing as erotic, but this is surprisingly more common than you might imagine.
Introducing the column: "The Millennial Classicist"