classicist
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Nadira Goffe interviewed a classicist about the significance of casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and argues that the controversy over her appearance misses the point.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2024
Nick Hammond, the classicist head tutor at Clare, painted a much rosier outlook for their foreign research students.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
