Classical Trivia!

Lost (or Found) in Translation

Every few years, there is a new, and generally assumed to be improved, translation of a major literary classic. Robert […]

How impoverished we would be with no access to literature written in languages unknown to us. Let us give thanks

As literature PhD candidate Adam Burgess notes, “One of the best parts about reading classic literature is discovering, and often

Trip the light fantastic Meaning To dance, especially in an imaginative or ‘fantastic’ manner. Origin This apparently obscure expression

Today, when I was proofing Lisa Pasold’s GUEST BLOG on her walks four our Belle Epoque trip to Paris, I

July 20, 1776 Mr. Thomas Jefferson Continental Congress Independence Hall Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Jefferson: We have read your “Declaration

Do you text? Have you even heard “to text’ used as a verb? I confess that I find this