Weekly Links 11.17.19
A weekly update of content from around the web including modern takes on the ancient world, material related to this past week’s articles, and a look at what our editorial staff is reading.
This week:
From carnage to camp beauty: the endless appeal of Troy.
Many imperial Romans had roots in the Middle East.
Was climate change behind the fall of an ancient empire?
How do we record the history of women in classics?
Pharos documents a fake Aristotle quote opposing human rights for immigrants.
This week in Eidolon history:
2019: Our crafting special featured crocheting, illustration, construction, and reflection on ancient and modern gender dynamics of craft.
2018: The sexual objectification of female professors; thoughts from a NASA classicist; are we paying the price for Classics’ response to Bernal?
2017: Yung In Chae reads Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation with Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad; Dear Delphi, and other very serious vignettes.
2016:Elena Ferrante’s Vergil; the Aeneid’s tapestry of lies; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phaedrus.
2015: Emanscapation: between the public and the pubic in ancient Greece; Dan-el Padilla Peralta on immigrant labor and its discontents.
Donna Zuckerberg: An amazing interview with Zadie Smith; I immediately purchased Disney+ but also really agreed with this Slate piece on all of the racism in the Disney vault; Nabokov on Russian toys.
Sarah Scullin: Chris Monks' of McSweeney's fame on how to not be a jerk to your editor; don't self publish; a guide to menopause (for all ages); "I'm a moderate," says racist Democrat.
Yung In Chae: Emily Dickinson as a freelancer, the family that’s suing Boeing, Leslie Jamison on the photographs that made her feel less alone, Yiyun Li on motherhood, grief, and traveling, Taffy Brodesser-Akner profiles Tom Hanks.
Tori Lee: Inmates in the Alabama prison system speak out; a tribute to Alex Trebek and Jeopardy; jokes that everyone on the Mayflower is getting sick of; mine the comment section for some really, uh, intriguing offbeat Thanksgiving recipes; very Victorian ways to die; who invented pad thai?
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