Weekly Links 5.3.20
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:
An update on the SCS/WCC COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Daedal, a poem by A.E. Stallings.
Children will be ok after COVID-19, by Ayelet Lushkov.
Evaluating Classics social media.
The real reason to study the classics.
This week in Eidolon history:
2019: Burn it all down? Why Roman bioarchaeology is a dead-end job; on my 100 Medium drafts.
2018: Theft and lies at Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible; articles about Vergil; what’s new at Eidolon.
2017: It’s time to embrace critical classical reception; grok, grooks, and Groot; Henry Kissinger pitches to Eidolon; why study Classics?
2016: Helen’s phantom menace; H.D.’s Helen in Egypt.
Donna Zuckerberg: One hairstylist in Georgia about how terrifying it is to reopen her salon; I'm never going on a cruise, ever; the proboscis monkey.
Sarah Scullin: What do famous people's bookshelves reveal?; a physics-based coronavirus risk estimator; you can only be a writer if you're wealthy; interviews with nannies working during the epidemic; do masks = emasculation?; how the pandemic has proven the social model of disability; all the virus models base their info off of quarantine numbers—what could possibly go wrong?
Yung In Chae: Why the coronavirus is so confusing, the coronavirus is rewriting our imaginations, people’s power during a pandemic, romantic nostalgia in the Normal People adaptation, private lives and public spaces; on that super old Greenland shark.
Tori Lee: How daily cartoonists are addressing the pandemic; a moving op-doc about a 27-year-old doctor who got COVID; a podcast for lexiphiles; as a person who takes five-plus pills every day, this piece from the Shatner Chatner about remembering whether or not you took your pill really gets me
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