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Pria Garcelle is a PhD candidate at Princeton University researching ancient textile fashions. She loves all languages (particularly the ancient ones of course!) and enjoys working on innovative, pedagogically driven projects to make sure every student gets a chance to fall in love with them too.

On Sensitivity Reading: the what, how, and why

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What is a sensitivity reading, and how is it done? In this post, Pria Jackson reflects on her EDI work for the new edition of the Cambridge Latin Course, and on what the process can bring to our classrooms and our representations of the ancient world. Introducing Queen Catia, who has not only a name … Read more

Surviving Two Thousand Years: understanding the role of power in shaping the textual record

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Four depictions of Orpheus and Eurydice: a relief, an engraving, a painting and a still from a film.

Why do some stories survive thousands of years while others are quickly lost? Many factors affect an ancient text’s chances of survival, but most important is power. If we understand how texts have survived with the aid of each generation’s most empowered, can we then predict which modern classics will survive? From the Classic to … Read more