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Against the Aeneid II: Revenge of ‘Against the Aeneid’
In setting out to articulate what I had intended not as an assault on the Aeneid tout court, but rather, on its primacy of place in the Latin classroom canon, I did not realize how many readers would...
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News of the Achaeans
Homer, Iliad, 11.218-231. Tell me now, Olympus-dwelling Muses, who first confronted Agamemnon, an actual Trojan or famed ally? Iphidamas, Antinor’s son, bold and burly and reared in rich-soiled Thrace,...
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Spaces and Scripts: The Dynamic of Reading in Ancient Texts
Source: “Vergil at Pompeii.”[1] In the ancient city of Pompeii, the ruins are adorned with various lines from Vergil’s Aeneid, revealing an anomaly: a misspelling and the absence of word separation....
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Did He Die or Not?
Homer. Iliad. 11.349-360. . . . [Diomedes] hurled his long-shadowed spear at Hector’s head and did not miss: he hit his helmet’s tip. But bronze deflected bronze from fair skin: the spear failed on...
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Tragedy and the Mind: Some Thoughts on Sophocles and Psychology
A few years ago, in the early months of the COVID pandemic, Reading Greek Tragedy Online explored the Trachinian Women as one of its early experiments. RGTO has inspired a lot of conversation and...
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Greek Studies
Some reflections from a student who took Greek for the first time this summer “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” –Aristotle We’ve all experienced times throughout when...
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Translation, Authority, and Reception 1: Facing up to Racism and Sexism in...
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a four-part essay on reception of minoritized translators of Classical Epic Poetry by Imaan Ansari. Being a translator without being an interpreter is close to...
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Translation, Authority, and Reception 2: The Translator’s Body
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a four-part essay on reception of minoritized translators of Classical Epic Poetry by Imaan Ansari. Who is allowed to make mistakes and deviate from a distilled...
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Translation, Authority, and Reception 3: Epic Interventions
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a four-part essay on reception of minoritized translators of Classical Epic Poetry by Imaan Ansari. Sexism emanates from the canon itself, since the notion of...
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Translation, Authority, and Reception 4: Race and Translation
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a four-part essay on reception of minoritized translators of Classical Epic Poetry by Imaan Ansari. The question of race is ever-present in the Classics and is...
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