Two excellent books that offer new insight into The Iliad
A new translation and critical study explore the legendary poem’s numinous spell
Classics
Friday
Saturday
In defense of Joshua Katz
A mother-in-law’s manifesto
Thursday
Was Penelope really a ‘silenced’ woman?
She stands up to her suitors and they admire her trick to delay her marriage
Tuesday
No one in Jefferson’s day suspected the contradiction between commerce and education
Republics have never lived by the commercial principle alone
Sunday
Plato, Socrates and Glaucon’s Fate
A new interpretation of the old impulse to tyranny
Wednesday
Classics takes the Red Pill
For online bigots, ancient history is the tip of the Zuckerberg
