Visual and verbal revulsion: Titian and the Younger Philostratus
Visual and verbal revulsion: Titian’s Perseus and Andromeda and the Younger Philostratus’ Hesione and Heracles* Charlie Pemberton,...
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TOPICA
- Nov 17, 2020
- 8 min
How many circuits?
The name is Orestes On the track, on the track again, on the track, how many times around, how many bloodied laps, how many black rows;...
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Joe Grimwade
- Nov 17, 2020
- 4 min
Building the classics: the LEGO Colosseum
The worlds of Lego and Classics have collided and now thrive, most conspicuously online in numerous noteworthy corners of the net.
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- May 18, 2020
- 5 min
Perfume and power: Killing Eve and the Roman emperors
Brian Theng Spoiler alert: I refer to a little snippet of episode four in the ongoing third season of Killing Eve and the 2019 film...
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- Feb 29, 2020
- 4 min
Ugly modernism?
Sofia Greaves The recent article from the Guardian confronts the dangers of combining neoclassical architecture with white power, ideals...
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- Feb 7, 2020
- 11 min
Paraklausithyron
Nir Stern The paraklausithyron across time and space: songs and poems of Mediterranean sub-cultures This blog post is meant to offer a...
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- Jan 19, 2020
- 5 min
Epic Rap, Rapping Epic
Brian Theng I am no music connoisseur. But put a scholarship application and a bar conversation together, and we get a blogpost about...
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- Dec 31, 2019
- 4 min
Sing, Muse, of the Man Who Once Learnt Something by Rote
Sarah Sheard It happened a few days ago now, and yet the tremendous feat will not leave my Twitter feed. It is even more galling given...
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- Dec 14, 2019
- 4 min
Classics, Political class, and the MMXIX election
Jesse Hala Pro Iuppiter, efficiamus Brexit. - Jacob Rees-Mogg, 6/12/19. It’s only been a couple of days, but the results of Britain’s...
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- Dec 8, 2019
- 6 min
Epic without Kleos: a Troy Story for our times
Zach Case A Review of Troy: Myth and Reality, at the British Museum until 8th March 2020. Get yourselves down to the British Museum and...
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- Nov 10, 2019
- 5 min
My first supper at Pompeii
Brian Theng Earlier this week I managed to sneak away from the autumnal idyll which is the Cam to the dreaming spires of Oxford to visit...
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- Jul 16, 2019
- 7 min
Peter and Pan: From Ancient Greece to Neverland, via Jerusalem
Nir Stern Modern Israel is dotted with remnants of antiquity, and not only of the biblical kind. From the Hellenistic palace of Herod the...
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- Jun 19, 2019
- 6 min
The Silence of Time: The Spaces In-Between
Albert Bates The footboard of an old piano is nailed to the wall. A pair of hands offer forth its copper strings like entrails pulled...
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- May 24, 2019
- 9 min
Unthroned: the Politics of Westeros and the Limits of Classical Reception
Zack Case Note: this article contains spoilers Disclaimer: this article is not another complaint about season eight of Game of Thrones...
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- May 22, 2019
- 6 min
‘I am Ashurbanipal’ – A Retrospective on an Exhibition
Tom Langley Between 8th November 2018 and 24th Feb 2019, the British Museum held an exhibition devoted to the last great Assyrian King,...
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- Mar 22, 2019
- 5 min
Poliziano's Nose
Nathaniel Hess Classical scholars are fairly disembodied beings, one might think, withering at lonely desks as they cultivate the...
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- Mar 11, 2019
- 2 min
Garni Temple: Visiting Armenia’s Ancient Past
Kyriakos Velos Nestled on a plateau overlooking precipitous ravines and ragged mountains in the Armenian Highlands lies Garni....
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- Feb 22, 2019
- 5 min
Julie Mehretu and 'the classical eye'
Sofia Greaves Julie Mehretu is considered to be among the foremost artists of her generation, and is currently on show at Kettle’s Yard....
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