Source: The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper The Man in the Sky By Aisha Daffeh Every day was the same for Isaac. He woke up, tossing his tattered gray duvet onto his bed. He stood in front of the mirror in his minuscule bedroom, delicately putting on his work uniform, which consisted of a […]
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In the Courts: The Rhetoric of Athens and Today
Photo: Close Up of Themis Statue with Justice Scales on Bright Background by Zhane Luk In the Courts: The Rhetoric of Athens and Today Rhetoric’s Precedence over Evidence in Classical Athenian Courts By: Lauren Davis I. Introduction To many modern audiences, the charm of Ancient Greece lies in its image as an overflowing fountain […]
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The Hero’s Journey
Source: Ancient Origins The Hero’s Journey By Lily Nesvold As a modern, musical interpretation of Virgil’s Aeneid, “The Hero’s Journey” is an instrumental track created using GarageBand, a digital audio workstation, combined with Renderforest, a music visualizer service. I created this piece as my final project for CLST-143, “Great Books of Greece and Rome,” […]
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Meet the Penn Classical Studies Class of 2021!
By Elizabeth Vo-Phamhi Every year, we here at Discentes have sadly bid another graduating class farewell while happily celebrating their achievements by featuring some of our newest Classical Studies and Ancient History alumni. The recently-graduated Class of 2021 is unique – they completed their entire senior year remotely, yet they excelled. In this most […]
Carro cura carere
Carro cura carere Re-evaluating the Roman Carrus By David Picker-Kille I. Introduction As an aspiring classical archaeologist with an interest in Roman land transport, the recent groundbreaking discovery of the four-wheeled “chariot” at the Villa Giuliana north of Pompeii[2] has highlighted for me the presence of an issue of translation between English and Italian that […]