classicist
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Nadira Goffe interviewed a classicist about the significance of casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and argues that the controversy over her appearance misses the point.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Ms. Kuin, a classicist at the University of Virginia, presents many of them in “Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2024
Of “truths” like geocentrism, the four elements of the material universe, or the body’s four “humors,” one classicist has asked Why prove them?
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
