Spencer Klavan

About Spencer Klavan

Spencer Klavan is a gentleman and a scholar. Or just a scholar, depending on who you ask. He studied Greek, Latin, and Theater at Yale, so when someone tapped him on the shoulder and whispered, "ahem, Mr. Klavan, were you planning on, you know, holding a paying job?" he broke out in a cold sweat and promptly applied for graduate school. A sucker for action movies, classic video games, and Ancient Greek hexameter, Spencer has big dreams about putting the gore, sex, and rock 'n roll back into ancient literature. He does this mostly in list form on PJM and at his blog, The Forum (check it out!). You can hit him up on Facebook and Twitter, and if you really want to get an earful, ask him about cross country running or the best recipes for hummus. Spencer will be pursuing a master's in Greek and Latin Literature at Oxford this fall.

Articles by Spencer Klavan

Why Hillary Clinton Should Advertise on Snapchat
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Why Hillary Clinton Should Advertise on Snapchat

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Why Offending People Is Suddenly Okay (As Long As Those People Are Jewish)
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Why Offending People Is Suddenly Okay (As Long As Those People Are Jewish)

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How Colleges Protect Their Students (Unless They’re Male, Conservative, or Jewish)
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How Colleges Protect Their Students (Unless They’re Male, Conservative, or Jewish)

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Study Proves Men Who Are Nice to Women Are Sexist & Evil
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Study Proves Men Who Are Nice to Women Are Sexist & Evil

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How to Beat the Thought Police, One American Flag at a Time: A Victory Case Study at UC Irvine
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How to Beat the Thought Police, One American Flag at a Time: A Victory Case Study at UC Irvine

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Not Religion's Future: ISIS and the Art of Destruction
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Not Religion's Future: ISIS and the Art of Destruction

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How Bad Ideology Destroys Good TV: Why Glee Crashed and Burned
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How Bad Ideology Destroys Good TV: Why Glee Crashed and Burned

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How to Apologize for Your Thought Crimes
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How to Apologize for Your Thought Crimes

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How Jezebel Invented a Sexist Response to the All-Female Ghostbusters
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How Jezebel Invented a Sexist Response to the All-Female Ghostbusters

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How to Unman a Gender Theorist: The Campus Conservative’s Field Manual, Chapter 3
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How to Unman a Gender Theorist: The Campus Conservative’s Field Manual, Chapter 3

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The Progressive Oscars: This Year’s Nominees, Re-Written for Social Justice
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The Progressive Oscars: This Year’s Nominees, Re-Written for Social Justice

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Not All Religions Are Peaceful: Charlie Hebdo and Cultural Relativism
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Not All Religions Are Peaceful: Charlie Hebdo and Cultural Relativism

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How to Outwit a Radical Feminist
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How to Outwit a Radical Feminist

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Where to Find Jesus in Oxford, England
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Where to Find Jesus in Oxford, England

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The 5 Merriest Christmas Traditions from Ancient Greece
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The 5 Merriest Christmas Traditions from Ancient Greece

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Why Conservatives Should Make More Dumb Jokes
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Why Conservatives Should Make More Dumb Jokes

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Why These 5 Judd Apatow Movies Would Make Great Ancient Comedies
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Why These 5 Judd Apatow Movies Would Make Great Ancient Comedies

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The 10 Most Absurd Plots from Ancient Comedy
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The 10 Most Absurd Plots from Ancient Comedy

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The 10 Raunchiest Jokes from Greek and Roman Comedy
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The 10 Raunchiest Jokes from Greek and Roman Comedy

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Why We Worship Celebrities
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Why We Worship Celebrities

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Why the #GamerGate Story Is So Boring
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Why the #GamerGate Story Is So Boring

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The 5 Hottest Greek Gods and Their Celebrity Lookalikes
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The 5 Hottest Greek Gods and Their Celebrity Lookalikes

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10 Gods Who Will Mess. You. UP.
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10 Gods Who Will Mess. You. UP.

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The 10 Biggest Sex Scandals from Mount Olympus
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The 10 Biggest Sex Scandals from Mount Olympus

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Why 300 Is More Accurate Than Your Textbook
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Why 300 Is More Accurate Than Your Textbook

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The 10 Wildest Stories From Herodotus Left Out of 300
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The 10 Wildest Stories From Herodotus Left Out of 300

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5 Articles That Reveal How Badass The Iliad Really Is
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5 Articles That Reveal How Badass The Iliad Really Is

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The 5 Coolest Quotes from 300 and Their Inspiration in Herodotus
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The 5 Coolest Quotes from 300 and Their Inspiration in Herodotus

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The 5 Most Underrated Heroes of the Iliad (and their Battle Stats)
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The 5 Most Underrated Heroes of the Iliad (and their Battle Stats)

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'Hate Speech': the Left’s Term for 'Opposing Viewpoints'
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'Hate Speech': the Left’s Term for 'Opposing Viewpoints'

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Why Everyone Isn’t Special, as Told by the Iliad
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Why Everyone Isn’t Special, as Told by the Iliad

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The NFL Borrows from the Iliad’s Playbook: Ray Rice and Achilles
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The NFL Borrows from the Iliad’s Playbook: Ray Rice and Achilles

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The 5 Most Epic Scenes in The Iliad (And What They Say About Heroism)
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The 5 Most Epic Scenes in The Iliad (And What They Say About Heroism)

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What It Means to Say You’re an Old Person in a Young Person’s Body
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What It Means to Say You’re an Old Person in a Young Person’s Body

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The 10 Goriest Deaths in the Iliad
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The 10 Goriest Deaths in the Iliad

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How Big Government Ruined Parks and Recreation
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How Big Government Ruined Parks and Recreation

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The 10 Deadliest Femmes Fatales of Ancient Greece and Rome
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The 10 Deadliest Femmes Fatales of Ancient Greece and Rome

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The 10 Most Badass Roman War Heroes
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The 10 Most Badass Roman War Heroes

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10 Movies Stolen Right Out of The Odyssey
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10 Movies Stolen Right Out of The Odyssey

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