Memorial brings Alice Oswald’s poetic retelling of the Iliad to the stage, with its furious indictment of war and its aftermath.
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A new BBC series has put Troy back on the map. But how much do we know about this city of legend?
Why right-wing populism gets the tradition of legality and justice exactly the wrong way round.
The important lessons from one of the most notorious cases of sexual manipulation took place not off-screen but right in front of the camera.
A classics professor is haunted by the co-optation of his discipline by the so-called “alt-right,” toxic masculinity and other self-styled “defenders of Western civilization.”
American cinema mines Greek myth most strongly at times of profound social anxiety. In the age of Trump, we are already seeing key political battlegrounds framed as underworld quests in film.
The story of the Odyssey is a quintessential quest that relates to the passage through life and the importance of love, family and home. Odysseus’s adventures have influenced everyone from Batman to Bob Dylan.
A central idea in the Iliad - a poetic work focused on the war for Troy - is the inevitability of death. The poem held a special place in antiquity, and has resonated in the millennia since.
For over 2,800 years, audiences have grappled with the destructive powers of Helen of Troy – and the toxic legacy lives on.
The House of Commons’ remarkable debate over air strikes really was a spectacle of heroic proportions.
Classical epic can seem particularly alien in the instant gratification culture of Instagram and Twitter, yet there’s a surge of interest in them.
At the heart of the Homer’s Coat production of An Iliad, currently playing at the Adelaide Festival, is that most of Homeric of things, a list. In a narrative compression as consummate as any in the epic…
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Emeritus Professor of Classics, La Trobe University
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Drama, The University of Queensland
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Reader in Classical Studies, The Open University
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Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English, University of Bristol
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University of Reading
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Honorary Associate, Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History, University of New Brunswick
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Reader in Medieval History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor, Physics, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (UEPG)
