Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Kathryn Topper thought she wanted to be an astronaut or astrophysicist. That was until tenth grade, when she fell in with a different crowd. This group made a habit of gathering late into the night to talk, sing, and drink—sometimes making a competition of flinging dregs of wine [...]

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Olga Levaniouk is an associate professor in the Department of Classics. She refers to herself as a Homerist, meaning she specializes in the work attributed to the epic poet Homer. “When I first encountered Homer as a student, it was a big day for me,” Levaniouk recalled. “We spent the whole class on one line of The Iliad, in original Greek, and every word had such amazing depth, there were interesting things to say about every word. We went on for an hour, and I felt we still hadn’t finished everything there was to know about that line.”