Vol.2

2024

The printing of humanitas 2024 is made possible by a generous gift from

Thomas and Mica Boh and the Baird Foundation

Table of Contents

Good Life

The Selfless Life is the Good Life

Mary Margaret Fanning

Iter Cordis, Mentis, ac Spiritus

Matt Grieco

Leisure, Philosophy, Tea, and The Good Life 

Isabelle Gross

The Essay

The Descent of the English Adjective

Jacob Akey

The Roots of Conservatism

  Mac Connors

House of Melodies

Katy Donovan

Myth Immortalized in Stone: Maine’s Legendary War Monument

Jillian Dorazio

A Plan for Human Thriving

Evan Smith

Academic Research

Divine Right to Rule: Divine Legitimization in Pagan and Christian Rome

  Megan Brewer

The Effect of Face on Social Media Impressions

   Riley Buchanan

The Paradox of Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment

Jillian Dorazio

How Augustus Used the Marbles of Rome to Shape Its Memory

Mary Margaret Fanning

Fiction and Works in Translation

Excerpt from the Odyssey

Hope Jensen

Heart and Soul: God of War Ares Spills the Beans about Eros and Psyche’s Barbecue in the Clouds 

Mary Margaret Fanning

Literary Analysis

La pouvoir de femmes dans Le Misanthrope, Le Cid, et L’École des femmes

Emma Link

Wealth of Failure: Satires by Horace and Petronius

Michael Dansereau

Broader Perspectives Through Matrilineal Narration

Ellie Duffin

Poetry

The Snake

Kellan Barbee

Moments of Divinity

Owen Bland

The Witch's Fable

Mac Connors

Monarch

Abigail Edgerly

Look Up

Isabelle Gross

Still Here, Branch

  Megan McLaughlin

Luna and Solis

Asher Manning

What I Am, Rhetorical, Chameleon

  Samuel Marcotte

Winter Morning

Evangeline Rockwell

Forever Seventeen

Caraline Stewart

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

GOOD LIFE

FICTION AND WORKS IN TRANSLATION

LITERARY ANALYSIS

POETRY

THE ESSAY