As an official copy editor, linguistic commentary should be well within your purview.

Phil Klay’s commentary on the socially brutalizing effects of these actions is illuminating and challenging.

Here’s a gift link

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Thanks for showing us around!

Which wolf are you going to feed the pierogis to?

I follow you on X also but only see your posts here on Bluesky.

Embrace it, it’s incurable

As in Siracusa, where was a Greek temple before there was a Doric temple that became a church and then a mosque and then a cathedral. The columns, walls, crenellations and baroque facade all tell the story.

Let them go to the beach?

Make sure to have plenty of gelato and espresso to keep going! Buon viaggio!

Besides all the Renaissance paintings at the Capitoline, though the ancient works are plentiful, there’s the Borghese and the Barberini. And a zillion churches. Sta. Maria Maggiore is a Roman Basilica, great space, but maybe too popular now that Pope Francis is buried there. San Clemente is great.

The time of your visit should be approaching, if conditions still permit. In my last visit in April, an exhausting full day at the Capitoline was worth it but already pretty busy with other tourists. Palazzo Massimo is big but not gigantic, and well-curated. Beyond the ancient, many choices.

From that point of view, I see what you mean. And there are intriguing references in the Hittite libraries about the Ahiyaawans/(Achaeans?). But 3000+ years ago really is a long time and so much remains unknowable for certain, including whether there even was a Trojan War as Homer describes.

Glad to be able to say I was in Mycenae yesterday and it’s stunningly impressive. But from what I understand, calling Late Bronze Age Greece, however interdependent it may have been, a unified state, is still kind of a stretch.