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From https://eidolon.pub/introducing-a-new-initiative-eidolon-in-the-classroom-fe68f29c9337

Eidolon is an online journal for scholarly writing about Classics that isn’t formal scholarship. As Donna Zuckerberg writes, "I suspect that the reason why our articles work so well in undergraduate classrooms is that we follow a simple truism for how to write good public scholarship: assume that your reader is a very smart person who doesn’t know much about your field. You don’t need to dumb your work down at all; you just need to provide enough background so that non-specialists can follow along, and you need to hold their interest. The result, of course, is that we’re often encouraging our writers to write articles specifically geared toward an audience of undergraduates who are bright and thoughtful but lack a broad base of knowledge about ancient Greece and Rome and classical scholarship."

A new initiative from Eidolon is the creation of Eidolon course packets. Zuckerberg writes, "Eidolon packets will include a selection of our articles carefully curated in order to generate productive class discussion. We’ve already created preliminary versions of two course packets, one aimed at Greek Civilization courses and one for Roman Civilization courses, and we’re working on developing more."

Learn more about the new initiative and how you can be involved in a pilot run of the packets at https://eidolon.pub/introducing-a-new-initiative-eidolon-in-the-classroom-fe68f29c9337