Pat Barker’s Classical Tradition
By Catherine Sorrentino
From the first sentence of Pat Barker’s novel The Silence of the Girls, it is obvious that she will not be aligning herself with “white male” classical tradition. “Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles…
Twin Venuses: a Diachronic Approach
By Achilleas A. Stamatiadis
Plato’s Symposium, composed around 385 BCE, is about the nature of love. Pausanias, the second speaker in the dialogue, distinguishes between two aspects of the goddess Venus…
Dialogues of the Dead 23
By Noah Apter
Lucian’s Dialogues of the Dead contains thirty largely comedic miniature dialogues between deceased Greek figures. The 23rd dialogue, which is notably more somber than the others, occurs…
Road Work Uncovers New Evidence at Iron Age Site
By Alicia Lopez
A new archeological site was uncovered during construction on a UK road in the summer of 2020. While it is not uncommon to find Roman archeological evidence through European construction projects, this particular find helps…