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One Thinks of Homer: Oliver St John Gogarty and James Joyce

Posted on 21st July 202231st August 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM MORAN Joyce's epic conflict with a friend-turned-enemy.

Homer’s Scythian Readers

Posted on 14th May 202214th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

J.S. UBHI How did myths tour the ancient world?

To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War

Posted on 7th May 20227th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Segal and Weil on how to live and love.

Scholiastic Triumphs: Insights from Ancient Iliadic Readers

Posted on 26th April 202226th April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

CHARLIE BAKER How did ancient scholars explain the greatest Greek epic?

It Starts with Homer: Writing a Classics Curriculum

Posted on 15th March 202218th March 2022 by Antigone in The Future of Classics

SAM ANDERSON How to inspire a new generation of Classicists when time is tight?

Homer and the Power of Story-telling

Posted on 1st March 20221st March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

KATHARINE RADICE How stories can empower their tellers as much as their listeners.

Singing in the Shadow of Homer

Posted on 17th February 202217th February 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOE GOODKIN Reawakening the Iliad blues.

If Homer had my Editor: Emailing the Ancients

Posted on 10th October 20212nd February 2022 by Antigone in Competitions, Greek Literature

ROSARIA MUNDA launches our new competition with some editorial suggestions for Homer.

The Tale of Two Beds: Wandering and Homecoming in the Odyssey

Posted on 9th October 202111th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI How two different Homeric beds stand in stark opposition.

Coldplay, Achilles, and Spiderman

Posted on 24th July 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

BRIAN THENG How does ancient heroism chime with 21st-century romance?

Being a Child in the Iliad

Posted on 29th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What happens to family values in Homer's world of warriors?

Remember Their Names: The Women Who Almost Saved Troy

Posted on 27th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

CHRISTINE LEHNEN The enduring power of Amazonian Penthesilea and Trojan Hippodamia.

The Ancient Power of Textiles: Coping with Loss and Lockdown

Posted on 20th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture

DOMINIQUE NIGHTINGALE Lessons from Penelope and other weavers of Greek mythology.

Hell-to-men? Helen and Her Magic Names

Posted on 9th May 20219th May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ELŻBIETA WESOŁOWSKA What should we call the most enigmatic figure in Greek literature?

Homer on Paying Attention

Posted on 5th April 20215th April 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ALEX PETKAS Odyssean focus on the epic journey home.

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