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Kathleen Vail

Kathleen Vail

Guest Post by Armand D’Angour: Was the Real Socrates More Worldly & Amorous Than We Knew?

Who’s responsible for whitewashing Socrates with ridiculous, puritanical Western morals? Here, Armand D’Angour offers a reality check…

Apr 10, 2019

Guest Post by Armand D’Angour: Was the Real Socrates More Worldly & Amorous Than We Knew?

Apr 10, 2019

Kathleen Vail

Dear Ajax: Your Dad WAS a Tough Act to Follow

In retrospect, Ajax needn’t have been so morose over following in his father’s footsteps.

May 28, 2018

Dear Ajax: Your Dad WAS a Tough Act to Follow

May 28, 2018

Kathleen Vail

Ajax: Tragedy, Catharsis & Brian Doerries’ Theater of War

“It took a hundred performances for me to realize people want to talk about the darkest aspects of the human experience” — Brian Doerries

May 20, 2018

Ajax: Tragedy, Catharsis & Brian Doerries’ Theater of War

May 20, 2018

Kathleen Vail

It All Comes Together When Achilles’ Head Bursts Into Flames

It all comes together when Achilles’ head bursts into flames. Life and death, revenge and hate, righteousness and evil, glory and fate. The…

May 16, 2018

It All Comes Together When Achilles’ Head Bursts Into Flames

May 16, 2018

Kathleen Vail

The Life of Achilles — Epic Tapestries by Peter Paul Rubens

Blossoming from the brush of Rubens, Achilles’ life force has rooted itself ever more deeply into history, propagating itself onto…

May 15, 2018

The Life of Achilles — Epic Tapestries by Peter Paul Rubens

May 15, 2018

Kathleen Vail

Hephaestus Forging the Shield of Achilles: Art Through the Ages

Did the fabulous Shield of Achilles forged by Hephaestus ever exist? Commanding a presence for something like 3,000 years so far, the…

May 14, 2018

Hephaestus Forging the Shield of Achilles: Art Through the Ages

May 14, 2018

Kathleen Vail

Kathleen Vail

A lifetime Philhellene and student of the Classics, esp. Homer's Greece. Author of Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles. https://theshieldofachilles.net

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