Typhoid Melanippe? One of our field agents who goes by the name ‘the Hawk’ tipped us off to this Scientific American story about DNA used to identify the plague at Athen Continue Reading →
The Survival of Classical Texts In the introduction to Texts and Transmission, L.D. Reynolds helpfully illustrates the contraction and expansion of classical texts from antiquity thr Continue Reading →
On Theoretical Jargon ‘Modern American theorists are products of the U.S. educational system: rarely do they master a foreign language. Perhaps that is why they have invent Continue Reading →