<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Topica]]></title><description><![CDATA[Topica]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:40:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Visual and verbal revulsion: Titian and the Younger Philostratus ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Visual and verbal revulsion: Titian’s Perseus and Andromeda and the Younger Philostratus’ Hesione and Heracles* Charlie Pemberton,...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/visual-and-verbal-revulsion-titian-and-the-younger-philostratus</link><guid 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Grimwade</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfume and power: Killing Eve and the Roman emperors]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/killing-eve</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ec2cf29e6ada300170fde3d</guid><category><![CDATA[Classics in times of Corona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 18:14:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_67482cf9c58f49a8be2e3eacf7998353~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_550,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugly modernism?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sofia Greaves The recent article from the Guardian confronts the dangers of combining neoclassical architecture with white power, ideals...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/ugly-modernism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e5a52d32ea2d80034a30c2b</guid><category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:33:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_9ecd8604a9ed45e6a3daaa2e0714cf31~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_744,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paraklausithyron]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nir Stern The paraklausithyron across time and space: songs and poems of Mediterranean sub-cultures This blog post is meant to offer a...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/paraklausithyron</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e3adba8f0dec80017688537</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:16:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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But put a scholarship application and a bar conversation together, and we get a blogpost about...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/epic-rap-rapping-epic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e2463a9252b39003b280c79</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:25:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_101e33646110448faa6847edaf44cf67~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_660,h_464,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing, Muse, of the Man Who Once Learnt Something by Rote]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/sing-muse-of-the-man-who-once-learnt-something-by-rote</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5e0b118e1a908600171e54df</guid><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 09:28:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_537dd9d529124442ba70cd332a6a9cf6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_968,h_569,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classics, Political class, and the MMXIX election]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/classics-political-class-and-the-mmxix-election</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5df537602ccc00001760f596</guid><category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category><category><![CDATA[News]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:31:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_96f4fb535fd249048bbd1d28da6e7667~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic without Kleos: a Troy Story for our times]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/epic-without-kleos-a-troy-story-for-our-times</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ded638d6dd32c001892152c</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 21:12:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_9e4e03a1545b466f947aad693e3397ff~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first supper at Pompeii]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/my-first-supper-at-pompeii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5dc31d884d382e0017ad5dbb</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2019 15:05:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_cda3b2c4fa8144078ae01141751d3261~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_824,h_462,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter and Pan: From Ancient Greece to Neverland, via Jerusalem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nir Stern Modern Israel is dotted with remnants of antiquity, and not only of the biblical kind. From the Hellenistic palace of Herod the...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/peter-and-pan-from-ancient-greece-to-neverland-via-jerusalem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d2df9187bd7e3001601a6ef</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:41:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_199410b72ed4410587323a9e09006def~mv2_d_7360_4912_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Silence of Time: The Spaces In-Between]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/the-silence-of-time-the-spaces-in-between</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d0a69140da9220016d371fe</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:05:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_bc9f132cc9d34bd68ac55ba9154e9987~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_458,h_612,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthroned: the Politics of Westeros and the Limits of Classical Reception]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zack Case Note: this article contains spoilers Disclaimer: this article is not another complaint about season eight of Game of Thrones...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/unthroned-the-politics-of-westeros-and-the-limits-of-classical-reception</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ce8446b79ca8d001553b67e</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2019 19:35:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_57f80583c9a44d8098b3757711870e9c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_614,h_345,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I am Ashurbanipal’ – A Retrospective on an Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tom Langley Between 8th November 2018 and 24th Feb 2019, the British Museum held an exhibition devoted to the last great Assyrian King,...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/i-am-ashurbanipal-a-retrospective-on-an-exhibition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5ce5946f23a6f100157d04ed</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 18:34:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_5a28088c9fa54b1895aef6efc1b71e36~mv2_d_1600_1200_s_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joe Grimwade Cancel: v.  1. To call off/abort an event. 2. To cross something out with lines. As the fluorescent orange lettering on the...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/cancel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c949354a46466001c6a626e</guid><category><![CDATA[Origins]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:51:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_e9381581683840d083e0dedabbc85b82~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_650,h_433,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poliziano's Nose]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Hess Classical scholars are fairly disembodied beings, one might think, withering at lonely desks as they cultivate the...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/poliziano-s-nose</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c94919cbaa21c001c6d609b</guid><category><![CDATA[Discussion]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:48:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_a5c8c19f157148b294270d37edceca06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_343,h_456,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garni Temple: Visiting Armenia’s Ancient Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kyriakos Velos Nestled on a plateau overlooking precipitous ravines and ragged mountains in the Armenian Highlands lies Garni....]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/garni-temple-visiting-armenia-s-ancient-past</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c86641bcef1e3001c011fb3</guid><category><![CDATA[On Site]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:41:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_fa369906b5eb4db78566fdc56c183251~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_810,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buttery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nir Stern It’s 5.30pm and you’re still in the library. A self-imposed deadline is approaching fast and only a cup of coffee and some...]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/buttery</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c7ef712ef63be001c4177de</guid><category><![CDATA[Origins]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:26:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_90fd3cc671e14c9880c3205431ac3a86~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_608,h_405,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julie Mehretu and 'the classical eye']]></title><description><![CDATA[Sofia Greaves Julie Mehretu is considered to be among the foremost artists of her generation, and is currently on show at Kettle’s Yard....]]></description><link>https://classicstopica.wixsite.com/topica/post/julie-mehretu-and-the-classical-eye</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c7085ba84cc4c001c489b2c</guid><category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 23:55:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cff043_ecdd515bd68e4ea3822eec3eac554f2e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_773,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>TOPICA</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>