Literature

Something is rotten in the state of Thebes

Sophocles’s and Aeschylus’s Theban Plays

Prometheus, or: should we know things?

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Democratic justice beats out violence: comments on the Oresteia

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Metapoetics in the Odyssey

Ulysses is a poet. Can we trust Ulysses, can we trust poets? I raise these questions because the hero of the…

The Homeric Hymns and Demeter’s Sorrow

If we can call the Iliad ‘The Wrath of Achilles’, we could likewise call the most…

Why Does Mythology Even Exist?

How mythological stories are born

A Complicated Love Story

Persephone and Hades

The Unfortunate Meeting

Mary Renault’s Fire From Heaven:

The Bacchae and Alexander the Great