@yalepress.bsky.social has published my reflection on how "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate", which I mostly wrote in 2022/23, holds up in 2026. Wish it held up worse. yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/07/20/w...

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Ferran Torres wore a "Make Spain Great Again" hat to the world cup celebration and it's being described as a satire of Trump. But not that long ago Spain's white nationalist Vox party was using that same slogan (plus classical references) without any irony pharos.vassarspaces.net/2019/05/24/p...

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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10. But other people - other translators, film directors, poets, novelists, the world at large - can and should recreate these sublime poems in any number of other ways. Homer contains multitudes. I am grateful to Mr Nolan for bringing more multitudes of people back to this great mythical world.

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9. In my own Homeric translations, I try to convey something of the feel of Homeric poetics, by using a regular traditional meter (=the meter traditional in English, rather than the free verse used by most other modern translators), and what I hope is a fresh, vivid, rapid, non-slangy lexicon.

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