Tag: Homer

• Life after the bedtime story

  I’m not sure when I was first introduced to myths -Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces in university to be sure- but I think it was when I was much younger that I became fascinated with the idea of stories which, although often fanciful, tried to explain the meaning and significance of the […]

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  July 20, 2022

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  fairy tales, Feminist thinking, Greek and Roman myths, Homer, imagination, Jess Zimmerman, Joseph Campbell, Lamia, Medusa, metaphors, myths, Nora McGreevy, Odysseus, Oedipus, Scylla and Charybdis, Sphinx, Women and other monsters

• Whodunnit?

  Popular opinion to the contrary, it seems to me that there are advantages to cultural naïveté -well, literary innocence, at any rate. Being seduced into a novel or short story solely because of the reputation of the author, or the ravings of a friend, risks disappointment -if only in your friend’s lack of sophistication. And […]

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  November 11, 2020

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  Aeon.co, anonymity, authors, classic Latin literature, classic literature, cultural naïveté, false news, graffiti, Homer, literature, Nero, Octavia, public media, Roman literature, social media, the Iliad, Tom Geue, University of St. Andrews in Scotland, vox dei, vox populi, writing

• An Achilles Heel?

    I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the average person, even if they’re only vaguely aware of Homer’s poems The Iliad, or The Odyssey, even if they are mildly conversant with the story of the siege of Troy and the Trojan horse, even if they have sort of heard of […]

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  April 29, 2020

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  Achilles, Aeneas, Aeon.co, ancient Greece, colour words, Forbes, hair colour, Homer, Odysseus, race, racial origins, Sarah Bond, skin colour, the Iliad, The Odyssey, Tim Whitmarsh, Troy, University of Cambridge, University of Iowa

• Is Man a Piece of Work?

  You see it all the time, don’t you –portrayals of great male warriors triumphing over equally determined rivals, their muscles rippling with sweat, their eyes scanning the crowd daring any others to step forward. It is a classic scene, presumably so reminiscent of the glory days of yore when men were really men –a classic […]

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  May 23, 2018

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  Achilles, classic literature, fairness, Hector, Homer, Iliad, Judas, masculinity, Matthew Sears, The Conversation, toxic masculinity, Trojan War, Troy, University of New Brunswick, Yeats

• Gynicles

  I’m not sure why I’m so much against what are now politely referred to as listicles. Maybe they’re too much like sound-bites and too little like enjoyable prose; maybe it’s because if I gloss over the word quickly, it always looks like testicles… I have nothing against lists –pithy reminders of what I need to […]

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  August 24, 2015

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  Aaron Carroll, David Leonhardt, electronic tablet, facticle, Homer, Huffington Post, information, listicles, lists, New York Times, Sound Bites, the Iliad, University of Vagina, vaginal problems, vinegar douche