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One Hundred Days of Dante

Join the world’s largest Dante reading group. Starting September 8th and ending on Easter 2022, we will read three cantos a week, learning from teachers who know and love Dante well. (Full site coming soon) — 100 Days of Dante Baylor University’s Honors College is hosting what it call “the world’s largest Dante reading group” […]

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Donald Kagan (1932 – 2021)

Sad news: Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, prominent for his scholarship, teaching, and social and political commentary, and a longtime colorful figure at Yale, died Aug. 6 in a Washington D.C. retirement home. He was 89. Kagan, who came to Yale in 1969, was a distinguished scholar of Ancient Greek history. […]