From Ancient to Modern and Beyond
Weekly stories about classical antiquity and its modern reception
ClassicsYou Are Odysseus: A Choose-Your-Own Homeric Adventure with Laura Jenkinson-Brown
How many ways can the Odyssey end? Teacher, illustrator, and author Laura Jenkinson-Brown talks about her work that turns the Homeric epic into an interactive multiverse.
Oct 13 - Antonis Chaliakopoulos
ClassicsThe Modern Invention of the Marathon Race and Michel Bréal
The marathon was invented for the 1896 Olympics, inspired by a 19th-century Victorian poem that confused two distinct legends associated with the battle of Marathon.
Sep 29 - Antonis Chaliakopoulos
ConceptsHow Difficult Is Difficult Heritage?
How nations confront dark pasts, and why public acknowledgment often serves as modern institutional purification.
Sep 22 - Antonis Chaliakopoulos
ConceptsThe Roman Concept of Homo Sacer in Agamben's Biopolitics
Giorgio Agamben's concept of Homo Sacer and bare life, and how it connects to Foucault and Mbembe necropolitics.
Sep 15 - Antonis Chaliakopoulos
ClassicsGentrification in Ancient Syracuse and the Glorious Exploits of Ferdia Lennon
The unique language and impactful themes of "Glorious Exploits" by Ferdia Lennon; a story about beauty and art.
Sep 8 - Antonis Chaliakopoulos
ClassicsEuripides' Alcestis & Nietzsche's Amor Fati on Cheating Death
Would you die in your partner's place? Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy Alcestis is the perfect introduction to Nietzsche’s concept of amor fati.
Aug 31 - Antonis Chaliakopoulos