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Tag: Classics

Classics and Ancient History

Q&A with Amy Lather

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 16, 202212 min read4 Views

Melissa Mueller and Lilah Grace Canevaro interview Amy Lather, author of Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, the first book to publish in the new Ancient Cultures, New Materialism series.

Classics and Ancient History

Four Irish Persephones

posted by Teri Williams March 31, 202110 min read117 Views

By Virginie Trachsler The young Persephone is gathering flowers in a meadow when her uncle Hades, god of the underworld,…

Atlantic Literature

The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

posted by Kirsty Crosbie February 9, 202110 min read186 Views

By Tessa Roynon In recent weeks, the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. has been much in the public eye. Whether…

Philosophy

Ancient reflections on tèchne: A lesson not learned?

posted by Teri Williams April 30, 20207 min read481 Views

By Stefano Maso The way we think and approach life nowadays is rooted in Greek and Latin antiquity. There is…

Philosophy

The wisdom of greed?

posted by Teri Williams April 8, 20206 min read626 Views

By Nicholas Baima Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the…

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Ancient History

Venus Voluptas: The Desire of Gods and Men

posted by Naomi Farmer August 14, 20184 min read2451 Views

Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.

History

From the Archives – Persius’ Prologue and Early Modern English Satire

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals March 5, 20153 min read1772 Views

When compared to Juvenal or Horace (the two most prominent figures of Roman satire in sixteenth and seventeenth century England),…

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