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Slate has a piece in which the various classically-inspired names are explained for the, ahem, classically-challenged types … possibly worth a look: The Hunger Names (Slate)
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Over at the New Yorker, Daniel Mendelsohn has penned a piece comparing JFK (and family) to various Greek heroes … here’s a bit from the middle, the ideas of which have probably crossed your mind every now and then: […] The family-curse theme, especially, is one we like to invoke in thinking about the Kennedys.…
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Saw this over at Neatorama: … I think every Classics Club should be required to do this at least once a year …
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Not sure how many folks are aware that the BBC has created a series based in Atlantis with all sorts of ancient Greek ‘goodness’ … you can check out a bunch of trailers here and decide whether this is something Classicists should watch: BBC One – Atlantis.
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Lucy Ferriss at Lingua Franca/CHE ponders something I ponder every now and then … in medias res: […] Here’s a sign of my generation: For years after I began teaching in the 1980s, I didn’t understand what Greek life referred to. I thought GLO stood for some sort of financial category, as in “We’re having…
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