Weekly Links 6.28.20
Links are back! They’ve missed you, and they apologize for their untimely absence. Though Weekly Links may look a little different for the foreseeable future, they’re still 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 in classics:
The new Sportula Europe site has launched.
Can studying Classics encourage empathy and equity?
Oedipus Rex or Mike Pence?
White academia and white supremacy.
Comfort Classics interviews.
Emily Greenwood on Thucydides and her father’s passing.
This week in Eidolon history:
2020: David Crane on staging Oedipus the King over Zoom during a pandemic.
2019: Classics’ suppression of ancient writers of color.
2018: Getting in touch with your inner classics nerd at the ACL; let the Cyclops eat Odysseus’s men in peace;“But is it organic?”
2017:Raising the dead in the Deathly Hallows; fantastic beasts and where to return them; the dreadful pedagogy of Hogwarts; Harry Potter and the undead author.
2016: That dragon, cancer, and the limits of catharsis.
From the editors: Watch this protest turn from peaceful to violent in 60 seconds (spoiler alert: it’s the police’s fault); can domestic abusers keep themselves accountable when no one’s watching?; a grim picture of psychiatric crisis in a prison; don’t conflate the fetishization of Black bodies with care for Black lives; the fan-film version of the Princess Bride; modern When Harry Met Sally interludes; the long con of Britishness; study guides for classic bedtime stories; are you a landlord or Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”?
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