In this week’s podcast Andy Vosko and Lori Anne Ferrell talk to Kenneth Wolf, John Sutton Minor Professor of History and Classics at Pomona College, about translating human experience along with words; the startling way the cultures of the past can seem utterly strange and completely familiar to us; and how people once found – and still find – answers to implacable facts of life and mortality.

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