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:
Ann Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy.
Revisiting Rent-a-Roman: Jermaine Bryant on JCL slave auctions.
The Atlantic has a longread on the Oxford papyrus scandal.
The pandemic is the time to resurrect the public university.
This week in Eidolon history:
2019: Why dialogue trumps the written word; how to write black disciplinary history on its own terms.
2018: This is not Sparta; how Youtube made one Latin teacher almost famous.
2017: Donald Trump and Thucydidean masculinity; confronting classics’s complicity in white supremacy; Carnuntum was not the fourth largest city in the Roman empire.
2016:Beauty and ugliness; a game of epic wanderings and the hunt for Helen; the dictator in his ruins; Ovid’s Ars Amatoria in limericks.
Donna Zuckerberg: Fuck the bread, the bread is over; Cecily Strong on grieving in isolation; economist Emily Oster with a slightly more hopeful take on whether kids are vectors; Madeline Miller talking to Ezra Klein.
Sarah Scullin: Saying that humans are the virus is eco-fascism; confessions of a 29 year-old virgin; to slightly date myself: the double-rainbow guy died; to extremely much date myself: an oral history of Center Stage; updated possibilities for this year's October Surprise; dad accidentally makes some compelling points about gender during 'Drag Race.’
Yung In Chae: The reinvention of grief during isolation, climate poetry, a submarine going where nobody has gone before, ethnic erasure in food culture.
Tori Lee: All 201 episodes of The Office are now playing out on Slack; edible versions of famous artwork; passing tests and what it means to truly be American; the real-life Lord of the Flies (feat. remarkably little cannibalism); Esther Perel on couples under COVID stress; a glimpse into the world of ice swimming; hypnotism as a remedy for pandemic anxiety?
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