Company:Classics Corner

Columns finding humor and contemporary relevance in the classics, with an emphasis upon Greek, Roman, and Biblical literature.

What's Our Point We at Classics Corner have an odd obsession with words written more than years ago We find Homer weirdly fascinating We think Thucydides is actually interesting and that Herodotus is about as cool as it gets We hate Plato's self-satisfied guts but we can't stop reading him We love every fart joke Aristophanes ever made And the list goes on We know that this isn't normal We're OK with that Who Are We We who for purposes of style have decided to refer to ourselves in the first person plural believe that the classics have great relevance to non-academics such as ourselves That is why we write what is often referred to as our stupid little column Classics Corner has appeared bi-weekly in Seattle's newspaper for more than two years and has developed a broad following of fellow freaks that we hereby hope to extend When we

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