The ancients had opinions about all of this. We are just printing them.
Scrolls & Trolls is a satirical journal of Classics and philosophy: each piece sets an ancient text beside something modern and lets the two argue.
“Somehow the most famous punishment in Greek mythology ends with everyone looking better than when they arrived.”
Read the full piece →“A jar is something you’re supposed to open; that’s the whole point of a jar.”
“Old gesture, new hero, new story.”
“studying for my latin final and the hair plucker has been going for six hours.”
“It still invokes the Muses, but now it also provokes us.”
“So whether we laugh at gods caught cheating or weep at the fall of Troy, the verdict is all the same: epic.”
“None of your listeners have gone home.”
“We heard some clanking sounds from inside, but we’re fairly sure it’s just the wood settling.”
“I inherited a family business from a father whose approach to succession planning was to eat it.”
All 26 pieces are on The Essays.
