Weekly Links 7.5.20
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:
What are the best classics books for children? (Featuring our own Editor-at-Large, Yung In Chae!)
Is Harry Styles the reincarnation of Dionysus?
Finding the (ancient) language for the loss of a sibling.
Professors won’t be forced to teach during COVID, and they’re expressing their concerns.
A thread on healthcare and higher ed.
An interview with John Bracey about race in Classics.
CripAntiquity’s doc on best practices for more accessible conferences has been updated to include a section on virtual conferences.
This week in Eidolon history:
2020: Reading the Iliad as a victim of sexual assault.
2019: Decolonizing Classics; go pet a dog.
2018: A Stoic approach to quitting smoking; a roundup of Eidolon articles about the Odyssey.
2017:Harrius Potter as a gateway to Latin; the boy who was a fox; how should we support scholars who are getting harassed online?
2016: A toast to The Toast.
From the editors: A reading list for reconsidering the 4th of July; how nine people are financially surviving during the pandemic; an epidemic of domestic violence in Puerto Rico; how dollar stores became magnets for crime; letters from a mother in solitary confinement; the other “I can’t breathe” cases you didn’t hear about; the online community rewriting lesbian tv characters; what it’s like to being Black in publishing; the TikTok aesthetic of dark academia; the 40-year anniversary of the Walkman; would-you-rathers for parents in quarantine.
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