<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/student-finds-humor-homer-in-ancient-poem.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>02/22/2023</pubDate><title>Student Finds Humor, Homer in Ancient Poem</title><description>After a three-year odyssey in academic research, Therese Watkins' '23 achievement is nearly homeric, worthy of seasoned scholars. Alongside Professor of Classics Zachary Biles, Watkins co-authored work that an international journal. Watkins and Professor Biles were the first scholars to recognize an allusion in poem “37” to a passage in Homer’s the “Iliad.”</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/200676634823604174-01-23-professor-biles-and-student-therese-watkins-12-dg.0.38.1200.723.full.jpg" alt="Senior Therese Watkins and Professor of Classics Zachary Biles co-authored a paper that an international journal will publish later this year."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Academics</tag><tag>Classics</tag><tag>Ware College House</tag></tags></item>