Reading Art
Mary AnastasiReading Art is a newsletter that offers meditations on the philosophy, art, material culture, literature, history, and mythology of the ancient world and its many echoes and reverberations throughout later eras.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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You Are What You Read (?)
By most accounts, Alexander the Great was enamored with Homeric epic, up to the point that he allegedly slept with a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. Life even imitated art, even beyond the obvious parallel of Alexander being a great con...
In Praise of Aporia
The topic of AI and learning is everywhere right now. Everyone from students to parents to administrators and faculty seem to be talking about it. Obviously, the debate around AI has gone from trying to prevent college students from using i...
A Good Man Skilled in Speaking
Sit ego nobis orator quem constituimus is, qui a M. Catone finitur, vir bonus dicendi peritus.
Let the orator whom we develop be the one who is, as M. Cato defined him, a good man skilled in speaking.
So says first-century CE Roman rhetor...
How to Read a Text When You Hate the Author
At the beginning of January, I had the opportunity to go to the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (better known as the SCS) in San Francisco. It was great to catch up with friends and colleagues and hear about the exciting...
Marking the New Year Like a Roman
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and that your 2026 is off to a good start!
Starting is the topic for today, in fact. I know that New Year’s has already passed us by, but, to be honest, it takes a few days for me to settle in...
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Mary is a classicist, cultural historian, writer, and educator. She holds a PhD in Classics from UCLA and has wide-ranging interests in ancient philosophy, rhetoric, and culture.
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