A collection of 11 posts
In his deliberately archaic new rendition of Homer’s epic, Jeffrey Duban takes a defiant stand against the modernisation of classical literature in defence of a disappearing tradition.
The West’s enduring success is rooted in its awareness of its own faults and constant striving to be better. Far from being a modern phenomenon, the tradition of Western self-criticism began with Homer.
Many of the people involved in Uberto Pasolini’s new screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are intimidatingly talented. It’s a pity, then, that the film is such a disaster.
An Artist's Response to James Kierstead’s “The Elgin Marbles: Playing for Keeps"
The Ancient Greek sculptures are a bellwether of where the “decolonization” of museums is headed.
We are all Rome’s children. Its legacy is everywhere we look.
The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past.
Most of us in Classics presumably read some Homer and/or Vergil at some point during our undergraduate careers, at least in translation, but there is no mandate that we do so.
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing.
Reading is a gateway to empathy and understanding.