Some People Just Don’t Like The Odyssey
Publisher: New Republic
Author: Giancarlo Buonomo
In Daniel Mendelsohn's new memoir, the act of reading Homer tests a father-son relationship.
A Father, a Son and an Epic Journey
Publisher: WSJ
Author: Willard Spiegelman
A seminar on Homer’s “Odyssey” is audited by a very special student. Willard Spiegelman reviews “An Odyssey” by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Greek Horse Races, Politics, and Identity
Publisher: Alte Geschichte: Online News
Author: Sebastian Scharff
In the second contribution to our series on horse races in Antiquity, Sebastian Scharff sets out to answer the question why Greek elites were so eager to participate in the Olympic horse races. It …
Archaeologists home in on Homeric clues as Turkey declares year of Troy
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Kareem Shaheen
Work is accelerating at site on Hisarlık Hill, formerly a ‘ruin of a ruin’, and a museum will open next year
Football fans and eunuch priests –
Publisher: TheTLS
Author: Mary Beard
Before I went to Madrid a couple of weeks ago, I had heard about the eighteenth-century statue and fountain of the goddess Cybele (otherwise known as Magna Mater) in Madrid’s central square (outside what is now the city hall). I hadn’t realised until I saw it quite how imposing it is — or quite how similar …
A Byzantine ancestor to same-sex marriage?
Publisher: The Conversation
Author: Mark Masterson
The medieval Byzantine Empire might hold some lessons about tolerance and same-sex marriage.
The uncertain origins of the modern marathon
Publisher: The Conversation
Author: James Kierstead
The story behind the marathon is more complicated than it seems.
3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry
Publisher: The Telegraph
Author: Sarah Knapton
A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today.
Democracy is a clash not a consensus: why we need the agora
Publisher: Aeon
Author: Saul Frampton
Democracy, by nature, is a contest between clashing political desires. That is why the public square matters so much
Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world? – Maria Michela Sassi | Essays
Publisher: Aeon
Author: Maria Michela Sassi
The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea?