Recent Parliamentary candidate for Clacton-on-Sea Count Binface joins Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins to discuss democracy, The Odyssey, and Latin on the Instant Classics podcast. “In this Clacton byelection special, Count Binface takes a break from the campaign trail and zooms in from his spaceship to chat with […]
The Odyssey is one of the most influential works of literature ever created, and yet its origins remain ambiguous and widely debated. It started as an oral tradition, passed along by aoidos, or singer-poets, and later transitioned to written form; the timeframe of this transition isn’t agreed upon […]
Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens tells the story of Homer’s Odyssey… in memes! You can read Part 1 here.
“Tolstoy once said there are only three stories in the world: A man goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and Big Dick Richie’s dick is too big. Ok, so one of those is actually a secondary plotline of the greatest work of art of the […]
Mary Beard writes about gender, speech, and the depiction of the sound of women’s voices from Homer’s time until now. “I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; […]
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