Weekly Links 8.10.20
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:
Was the Delphic oracle constantly stoned?
A BBC discussion of the fall of the Roman Empire.
Bartleby, the school superintendent: a story of reopening.
Can you believe that anyone would pretend to be a WOC academic to advance their career??
Hesiod’s catalogue of women, by Danny Lavery.
This week in Eidolon history:
2020: Our online pedagogy special discusses how to create an equitable Latin classroom and how to incorporate an Eidolon course packet into your syllabus.
2019: Women who translate.
2018: Classical slavery and Jeffersonian racism: one year after Charlottesville.
2016: Re-queering Sappho.
From the editors: The dark patterns of online marketing; a collection of haikus about sex in quarantine; this homeschool mom can’t help you pandemic school; the store policies of small business owners from romcoms; Tiktok and the evolution of digital blackface; I got COVID and it never went away; COVID in general is never going away; a non-hiker’s terms and conditions for hiking; the comfort of Japanese food dramas; what happened to Casper the Friendly Ghost? Will the pandemic change cultural assumptions about having children? Mom makes “that’s what she said” joke and immediately regrets all life choices.
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