Isidore's Pub, Episode 3: "Glamour"

The Classical Dispatch and Devin O’Donnell

Feb 20, 2026

In Isidore's Pub, Devin O'Donnell discusses the forgotten meanings of words in our normal vocabulary. In this episode, he considers "glamour" and its lost connections to grammar, Latin, sorcery, and witchcraft.

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Devin O’Donnell

Musings "under conditions that seem unpropitious." A classical hack | Author of a book on scholé | Was research editor of Bibliotheca. Devin and his family live in the Northwest, where he writes, fly fishes, and misses the sea.

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