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the Classics in Color


2025 New York Classics Conference!
On May 3rd, I will be hosting the 2025 New York Classics Conference. Professor Joseph Farrell of the University of Pennsylvania will be...
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Mar 11 min read
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Jupiter and his "Partial Impartiality"
The Council of Gods, miniature on parchment. Latin manuscript of the Aeneid called Virgil Roman Codex, Vat.Lat 3867, folio 14, 5th...
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Jan 186 min read
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Aeneid Book 7: Simplified for a Modern Audience!
Opening of Book 7, Metropolitan Museum of New York Happy New Year! Another initiative I have been working on is providing translations...
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Jan 42 min read
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Fall Research: Snakes & Omens in Book 5 of the Aeneid
Salvēte, omnēs! Throughout this September and October during my fall as a high school senior, I have been working to understand Vergil's...
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Nov 1, 20245 min read
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Eugenics: rooted in the Classical "εὖ" and genēs
The Second International Congress of Eugenics took place from September 22 to 28 in 1921, at New York City’s American Museum of Natural...
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Aug 23, 202417 min read
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My Recent Ongoing Research
Salvēte, omnēs! I am delighted to present to you all a project that I have been working on for the past few months! I have been...
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Aug 20, 20241 min read
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Citizen or not? Cicero Creative Project
I wanted to share with you all a creative speech and rhetorical analysis that I wrote on behalf of the prosecution of Pro Archia, the...
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May 12, 20245 min read
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CANE Annual Meeting Recap!
Even in the midst of a winter rain and snow storm, I was delighted to travel to New Hampshire to present at the 118th annual meeting of...
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Mar 24, 20242 min read
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Goodness: Powerful or Problematic?
Prior to my in-depth study of Cicero's "Pro Archia Poeta" in my Latin elective, I read the following quote from Cicero's perspective on...
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Mar 10, 20242 min read
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Nature's Prominence
I read Daedalus and Icarus for the first time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Icarus' plight of "flying too close to the...
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Feb 26, 20242 min read
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"A Fountain's Embrace"
I want to share with you all a poem that I wrote in 2022. The seemingly trivial act of throwing a penny into a fountain inspired me to...
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Nov 26, 20232 min read
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It's here! (Emily Wilson's Iliad, of course)
I have been eagerly anticipating Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad since I read her translation of The Odyssey. I enjoy a...
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Sep 27, 20232 min read
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Salvēte!
The Classics in Color has been an ongoing project of mine ever since I stepped into my first Latin classroom in sixth grade. I could not...
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Sep 26, 20232 min read
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