Weekly Links 7.12.20
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 in classics:
How one student found his place in the classical tradition as a British Indian.
Arguing against the traditional definition of “Classics.”
What parts of Classics would these scholars preserve for posterity?
Sending home international students will do lasting harm.
Is unschooling the way to decolonize education?
On the response to the open letter by Princeton faculty: Calling your students terrorists is not brave; tantric mammification, liquid symptoms, and haunting; a thread by Sententiae Antiquae.
This week in Eidolon history:
2020: Toto, Argos, and the loss of a pet during a pandemic.
2018: Turning the tables on dominance and diversity in classics; what mystery novels set in Rome can tell us about antiquity.
2017: The tragedy of Tom Riddle Tyrannos; why name a journal after Hypatia?
2016: A catalog of things archaeologists leave behind; a sample of student-led syllabus design; feminist classics and the burden of authority.
From the editors: A woman who was adopted into the U.S. at birth is now facing deportation at 30; how microaggressions ruined one woman’s suburban American dream; on quitting sex and finding oneself; when retail stores close, women lose their second chances at careers; on being immunocompromised and sick with COVID; how reporting domestic violence can work against women in family court; how one Cards Against Humanity employee was fired; the rise and fall of billion-dollar jewelry empire Alex and Ani; a journalist who got arrested, jailed, and assaulted while covering protests in Seattle shares his story; a wonderful GQ profile of Andy Samberg; Scrabble bans racial and ethnic slurs.
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