A classics scholar reflects on Greek myths and what they can help us understand about recreating relationships – as a bridge from our past to present selves.
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These books and poems give the women of the Odyssey a say and other new perspectives on the classic tale.
On Father’s Day, a scholar of ancient Greek poetry explains how he came to understand the father-son relationship and his journey of loss and yearning through reading the epics.
A scholar of Greek literature writes why we need to turn to the past to understand the present – and the lessons that Homer’s hero, Odysseus, holds for us.
Hell-themed Halloween attractions play on people’s fears. The early depictions of hell were meant to use fear as a moral guide to help others.
Why right-wing populism gets the tradition of legality and justice exactly the wrong way round.
The ancient Greeks knew what made a good leader. Why does it seem we have forgotten their lessons?
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.
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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University of Reading
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Honorary Associate, Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University
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Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Sarah Lawrence College
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Associate Professor of Christian Origins, University of Dayton
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Lecturer in Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
