About Ariadna
About Ariadna Kastri
I read the classics the way an expert examines a disputed document: dating every layer, citing book and line, and asking who stood to gain. What draws me are the women the poems left in the margins — the ones who wait, who weave, who pay for the wars that other people get to tell. My books are about them: about what Homer said, what tradition added later, and the difference between the two, which is rarely innocent. I hold to one rule with you: don't take my word for it — check. Every claim carries its coordinates in plain sight, so you can go to the text and read it with your own eyes — and if you catch a mistake, tell me: in this workshop a correction is worth more than a compliment. I sign with the name of the woman who handed over the thread.
Every claim carries its book and line.
The method
- Date every layer.
- Cite book and line, where you can see them.
- Ask who stood to gain.
- And never rule on your behalf: two readings on the table, and the verdict is yours.
Write to me
I read everything that arrives, and I answer. If a passage doesn't add up, if you've caught a mistake, if you want to argue a verdict: that address exists for exactly that. A method that asks to be checked has to answer the door when someone checks.
