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links to longer writings

here you can find links to my academic essays, mostly. i've arranged them by topic/class, so you can click on the post you want to read.

he does his own stunts: achilles and patroclus and the melding of identity

on the heroes of the iliad and their intertwined narrative identities. 

Class: Reading Homer, Iliad

secrecy in alchemy: the gold standard

on the relationship between the study of alchemy and its culture of secrecy, as contrasted with modern scientfic culture of collaboration, transparency, and peer-review.  

Class: Scientists or Swindlers? Alchemy from Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution