Law & Liberty Reviews New Book by Bard Professor James Romm
Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics James Romm was reviewed in Law & Liberty. Graham McAleer writes that Romm’s “fast-paced” biography provides a valuable perspective on Demosthenes’s charge to Athenians, in which he stated “you cannot have been wrong [to] have taken on the danger of fighting for the freedom and safety of all.”
James Romm’s Book Plato and the Tyrant Reviewed in the Washington Post
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece, a new book by James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College, has been reviewed in the Washington Post. The work is “a deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography, as well as a meta-commentary on the perils of regarding canonical thinkers as disembodied minds,” writes Becca Rothfield for the Post. Read More >>Daniel Mendelsohn Interviewed in the New York Review of Books
Daniel Mendelsohn, the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, spoke with the New York Review of Books about his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press. In conversation with Lauren Kane, Mendelsohn discussed the challenges of balancing both poetic beauty and literal meaning in translating, the ways in which the story handles depictions of family relationships, and why the epic is experiencing a resurgence in modern retellings. Read More >>More Bard News
- Robert Cioffi Reviews The Red Sea Scrolls for the London Review of Books
- James Romm in Conversation with Leon Botstein at Plato and the Tyrant Book Launch on May 13
- Bard Students Win Top Three Places at NYCC Greek and Latin Recitation Contest
- Celeste Connell ’26 Wins 2024 Dante Prize
- James Romm on Thebes for Classical Wisdom Podcast
- Robert Cioffi Publishes an Essay on Newly Uncovered Euripides Papyrus in the London Review of Books