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Homer, Virgil & Dante Visit the Afterlife

By Robin Bates | Published: April 6, 2020

In my Representative Masterpieces course, I conclude with Dante’s “Inferno,” where we see sinners creating their own hells.

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Odysseus’s Emasculation Anxieties

By Robin Bates | Published: January 29, 2020

“The Odyssey” is obsessed with a fear of emasculation.

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What Do Odysseus’s Monsters Mean?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2020

My explanation for the monsters in “The Odyssey.”

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Shelley Predicted Microsoft’s AI Problems

By Robin Bates | Published: April 3, 2016

Monday My son Tobias Wilson-Bates, currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, recently published a short essay about robotics and literature in a school newsletter. Sign me up immediately for the Proud Fathers Club. The relationship between machines and literature has long fascinated Tobias, which makes Georgia Tech a good place for him […]

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