Review: Myths, Gods and Immortals: Medusa
Our resident book reviewer runs an eye over a new book about everyone's favourite gorgon...
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Tallulah Trezevant
- Jun 13
- 14 min
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...
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Carlotta Vincenzi
- Jun 6
- 3 min
Review: Bad Girls of Ancient Greece
A super-engaging compendium of female characters from Greek mythology releases on June 6th. Carlotta Vinccenzi thinks it's a cracker...
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Onyemauche Jessica
- May 23
- 4 min
Igbo mythology: A beginner’s guide
Onyemauche Jessica takes you through some of the mythology of Igboland...
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Arianna J Baggett
- May 9
- 11 min
Dido Deserved Better
Like many victims of emotional abuse, Dido could not help loving a man who tortured her. Arianna J Baggett writes.
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Regina Nagan
- May 1
- 5 min
Flora: The People’s Goddess
A slightly behind scheduled introduction to Flora, a goddess of so much more than flowers...
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M Alzamora
- Sep 20, 2023
- 4 min
Hozier Meets Euterpe
M Alzamora has a closer look at the latest Hozier album - and finds mythology!
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Emily Singeisen
- Jul 21, 2023
- 5 min
Justice and guilt - from Oresteia to HBO's Barry
Emily Singeisen has a look at the moral ambiguities of justice, as shown in the works of Aeschylus and HBO...
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Carmen Robinson
- Jul 10, 2023
- 3 min
Putting Together the Puzzle of Botticelli's Venus
Carmen Robinson takes a closer look at a Renaissance classic....
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Miri Teixeira
- Jul 5, 2023
- 3 min
The best Classics PC games on the Steam Summer Sale
Our own Miri Teixeira has been skimming the Steam sale and has selected some cut-price bangers for you...
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Veirs Tallis
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
Ad Astra: The Torch Bearer: Dionysus, Iacchos, and Arcturus in the Eleusinian Mysteries
In the second of the Ad Astra series, Veirs Tallis discusses the importance of Arcturus to Eleusinian initiates, wine-makers and astronomers
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Clifford S Marcus MA MCIL CL
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
Echoes of the Cyclops
Clifford Marcus believes that chapter 34 of the Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov seems to be playing with Homer...
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Aidan Scully
- Sep 9, 2022
- 5 min
Antigone in the Age of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Is Antigone deserving of treatment as a heroine, or does she represent something uncomfortable to the 21st century?
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Megan Mahoney
- Sep 2, 2022
- 9 min
The Wine-Dark Sea
Megan Mahoney offers up the first chapter of her YA novel, with a hunt for Sirens...
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Ella Gilbert
- Aug 26, 2022
- 4 min
Killer Queen
Ella Gilbert thinks we need to take another look at Clytemnestra, who is more than just a killer queen.
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Veirs Tallis
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
Ad Astra: Achilles: The Brightest Star of His Age
Veirs Tallis shares something fascinating about the night sky and Homer.
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Riley Gombis
- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
Review: The Overstory
Let Riley Gombis tell you about an Ovid-inspired novel...
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Anna Fernández Iglesias
- Jul 8, 2022
- 4 min
The Yassification of Medusa
Anna Fernández Iglesias offers some reflections on the filters the Greeks may have put on their lens for Medusa...
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Vicki Feltham
- Mar 25, 2022
- 9 min
The Misjudging of Ajax the Great
Vicki Feltham (@purevelf) reappraises Ajax and his representation in myth.
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Working Classicist Admin
- Aug 13, 2021
- 3 min
Lore-Abiding Citizens?
Lore Olympus is a modern retelling of the kidnapping of Persephone, written and drawn by New Zealand artist Rachel Smythe and launched on...
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"For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.” - Cicero. Yes, that Cicero...
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