While watching the news about the recent negotiations happening in DC, I thought about negotiation and the word’s etymology. One might think that it has something to do with discussion or business, but the root is much funnier, in my opinion. Negotiation is actually a negative of a Latin word, otium. Though the positive has…

In a book I discovered at a used bookstore (Grey Matter, which I strongly recommend) in New Haven a while back, I found something interesting about how people today and how Romans thought of the divine very differently. I think the discrepancy makes ancient religion so fundamentally unlike modern religion that ancient religion simply cannot…

AI and Classics. A most bizarre combination. One from ages past and the other only in its infancy. But it is the unexpected combination of AI with Classics that will bring antiquity into the future.  The Herculaneum Papyri are the only collection of books from antiquity that has survived in its entirety. Preserved by the…