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The stories of the Trojan War have been retold for millennia. Who are their key players and is there any truth to these tales?
Both art forms encourage us, the listeners, to react, reflect and ultimately select with which speaker to side.
Reading Wilson’s Iliad, one senses something of the chant of Homer’s verse, even through the written word.
Stories in Greek mythology on the cycle of nature showing youth, death and rejuvenation can have lessons for us today on how grief changes over time and transforms who we are as people.
A classics scholar reflects on Greek myths and what they can help us understand about recreating relationships – as a bridge from our past to present selves.
Epic poetry tends to be seen as highbrow, while action films are regarded as puerile and brutish. But the two share an affinity for dressing up brutal deaths with rhetorical flair.
Rachel Hadas says that despite the cascade of scary news, humans will adapt, as they always have – and provides evidence of that resilience in the literature she loves and teaches.
On Father’s Day, a scholar of ancient Greek poetry explains how he came to understand the father-son relationship and his journey of loss and yearning through reading the epics.
Families who lost their loved ones during the pandemic could not even properly grieve. Greek epics show why lamentation and memorial are so important and what we can learn in these times.
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Emeritus Professor of Classics, La Trobe University
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James J. Stansell Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy, University of Sheffield
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Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor of Egyptology, KU Leuven
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Research Associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen