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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...

The Perfect Modern Gladiator is Tom Hanks (Part Two)

Building from Part One, Alexandra Sills explains how the everyman actor, is an ideal everyman gladiator.

Echoes of the Cyclops

Clifford Marcus believes that chapter 34 of the Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov seems to be playing with Homer...

How Aristophanes Met Your Mother

A look at how absurd, hyperbolic humour connects the playwright and the modern TV show.

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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...

Posca and Politics

First things first, this is a post about the end of the Republic and Julius Caesar, and we know that some readers are *sick* of that...