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April 30, 2021
Jo Livingstone
How a Young Scholar Changed Our Understanding of Homer Forever
On the short and momentous life of Milman Parry
October 3, 2017
Giancarlo Buonomo
Some People Just Don’t Like The Odyssey
In Daniel Mendelsohn's new memoir, the act of reading Homer tests a father-son relationship.
October 14, 2016
Craig Morgan Teicher
Why Bob Dylan’s Songs Are Literature
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Toward a New Alexandria
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The Siegfried Line
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