Eric Adler could not have had the coronavirus in mind when he wrote The Battle of the Classics, but the timing worked out well. The humanities, so we are told, have been undergoing a series of crises for years, and the scene has only grown bleaker of late.
Eric Adler is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond and Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography.