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Why Socrates’ Contradiction Makes Perfect Sense on a First Date.

Knowing Nothing, Knowing Love
Joy Connolly |
On Love and Discomfort in the Symposium.

Socrates Without Cushions
Mark Buchan |
Is gazing into your lover's eyes the first step towards philosophical enlightenment?

Hot Socrates
Kirk Ormand |
What if translation is as simple as seeing what someone had to say, and telling it to someone else?

Book Review: The Philosophy of Translation
Megan Buick |
Why does The Odyssey, and the story of the return home, still matter?

The Paideia Institute's 2025 High School Essay Contest Winner
William Crye |
A portrait of a brilliant high school Latin teacher and theater director, before Circe and The Song of Achilles.

Notes from Madeline Miller's Classroom
Eric Simpson |
But be very afraid!

Happy Valentine's Day from Antiquity
Mark Buchan |
Thoughts on Uberto Pasolini's The Return.

Is the Odyssey a Christmas Movie?

Mark Buchan |
A review of Luis Quintero's electrifying battle-rap rendition of the Euripidean tragedy.

Medea: Re-Versed, a Classic Play Rehashed
Aminata Hughes |
On The Tortured Poets Department's Classical allusions and complex poetic twists.

Taylor Swift for Classicists, Or: Love Elegy Today (Part I)
Mark Buchan |