Weekly Links 5.25.20
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:
Emily Wilson reads her translation of the Odyssey.
Correcting nonsense about the ancient Greco-Roman past.
Crip Antiquity made this Google doc of pedagogy resources.
What is the worth of a terminal masters in Classics?
Power and authority, and who has it.
This week in Eidolon history:
2019: Disabling ableism in classics; the racism in science’s DNA; rereading Ovid in the wake of Silent Sam; maternal lines: when scholarship gets personal.
2018: Love triangles in Hamilton and the Iliad; revisiting the “Hellenistic” tradition; the madwoman in the Attic tradition.
2017: Five lessons from my first year teaching high school; Beyonce, Plato, and the foundations of the polis.
2016: History, myth, and the shrinking of genre borders; swinish herds and pastafarians.
Donna Zuckerberg: I can't stop thinking about Robert Pattinson's penne; a virtual doula; Ina Garten is killing it in quarantine; Jerry Saltz on art and appetites; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is absolutely horrifying.
Yung In Chae: Why all of your friends are suddenly selling nudes, the problem with comparing everything to fascism, abundance in loss, on labor and literature, when you don’t feel like buying stuff anymore.
Tori Lee: Probably the most joy I’ve experienced in quarantine comes from this video of a man solving a sudoku puzzle; or maybe from these penguins at an art museum; this article about mothers quitting their jobs because their husbands are lazy, useless trash of childcare made me so enraged; come for the wolf-kink erotica, stay for the nuanced discussion of what originality and intellectual property mean in a world of crowdsourced fan fiction; this piece broke my heart, I think because it feels like my high school diary, but well written: “I am in love with you and I do not get to keep you.”
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