Maxwell T. Paule

@profmaxwell.bsky.social

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"The closest thing to a war correspondent at a Quaker institution." Professor of Ancient & Classical Studies at Earlham College. Views expressed here are my own and do not represent the college. He/him

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Disclaimer: I took a year of classical Greek at Stanford

I was an average student, definitely not as good as the experts here, including Wilson herself. I couldn't translate it myself

But I think you will see that many of my criticisms don't require knowledge of Greek

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