What It Takes To Be A Philologist

This is a picture of my work station on a regular day working on Greek epigrams as a philologist. It takes a lot of texts, dictionaries, commentaries, and secondary sources to work on ancient literature (and coffee!) to endure the long hours dedicated to understanding, interpreting, and making connections between the ancient texts and modern readers. The picture shows the main text on the screen, its commentaries on the side and three different kinds of dictionaries. I would have needed a bit more space if my secondary resources were printed, but they end up taking tabs space on my screen.