Before I look back on our articles from August and preview the September content, I have a very exciting announcement to make: Eidolon is hiring! We’re looking for someone to fill the role of Managing Editor and help the journal continue to grow by managing submissions, revising articles, and producing original content. The managing editor will help drive distribution of Eidolon articles on social media and community channels while staying on top of emerging themes, stories, and trends in public Classics.

The ideal candidate has a degree in Classics or a related field (BA required, MA/PhD in progress preferred) and strong writing skills. They are also passionate about our goal of using thoughtful, informed comparisons between the ancient world and modern one to better understand each other.

If you are interested in this (part-time, paying) position, please send a message by September 25 to eidolon@paideia-institute.org (subject line “Managing Editor application”) with your CV attached. In the body of the message, explain briefly why you are interested in the position and provide either an idea for a possible Eidolon article or an example of the worst comparison between the ancient and modern world that you’ve come across.

Even though Eidolon slowed down to a publishing schedule of one article per week during the month of August, it’s been an exciting month for us as we plan some changes to the journal for the 2015–2016 academic year.

Eidolon published five articles in August:
Wells Hansen delved into our deep fears about agency and human control over our mechanical slaves in Robots, Elephants, and Other Terrifying Beasts
Rachel Ahern Knudsen explored the similarities between fanfiction and the sophists’ use of Homeric models in Fanfiction in the Fifth Century BCE
Chiara Sulprizio explained why the tenets of Stoicism resonate so well in the modern world in Why is Stoicism Having a Cultural Moment?
Leo Landrey compared the baffling internet outrage over the killing of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe with Valerius Flaccus’ description of Cybele’s outrage over her own slaughtered sacred lion in Between Lions and Men
Zoe Adams looked back to Hippocrates to find the rhetorical roots of our societal disgust for menstruation in Diseasing the Female

In September, Eidolon will return to a twice-weekly publishing schedule (except for Labor Day), and we have some fascinating content coming up — from an account of teaching the ISIS manifesto in a seminar on sex and gender in antiquity to an exploration of the surprising similarities between Euripides’ Bacchae and the early history of Mormonism in America.

Happy reading!

Donna Zuckerberg received her PhD in Classics from Princeton in 2014. She is the founding editor of Eidolon and teaches Greek drama at Stanford Continuing Studies and online for the Paideia Institute. Read more of her work here.