Khameleon Classics
Produced by Shivaike Shah Abstract: For two thousand years, study of the Greek and Roman worlds has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. What is our fixation with…
Category: Reception and the Culture Around Classics
Antiquipop: L’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine
Editor: Fabien Bièvre-Perrin A website devoted to Classical and Ancient Egyptian reception in pop culture and politics. Essays in both French and English. Some sample essays: Hardeep Dhindsa and Vanessa Stowell, “Give…
From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom
Edited by Nancy S. Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy Abstract: Ancient sources raise a variety of issues—slavery, infanticide, abortion, rape, pederasty, domestic violence, death, sexuality—that may be difficult to discuss…
Revisiting the “Hellenistic” Period
by Yousuf Chughtai Abstract: A discussion of the representation of Alexander the Great’s empire and the Hellenistic period in Western scholarship, and ways in which modern multifaceted identities can help shed new…
Ancient History and the Classics from a Comparative Perspective: China and the Graeco-Roman World
by Hyun Jin Kim Abstract: Comparative research in Classics and Ancient History is a relatively new phenomenon. At present, there is no coherent and systematic methodological paradigm for conducting such research,…
Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music
by K.F.B. Fletcher and Osman Umurhan (eds) Abstract: This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world. Contributors examine bands from across the…
Staging the European Classical in ‘Latin’ America: an introduction
by Rosa Andújar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Abstract: This volume explores the rich and varied afterlife of Greek and Roman tragedies and comedies in Latin America, offering nuanced examinations of notable…
Streaming the Past
Abstract: Streaming the Past is a Science Communciation Project by Leiden University and the VALUE Foundation. Funded by a Science Communication grant from the Dutch Science Organisation (NWO), a team of three students…
Why the Whiteness of Archaeology is a Problem
by William White and Catherine Draycott Abstract: Archaeology remains a profession with an overwhelmingly white workforce. Two archaeologists ask why that matters and what can be done about it. Article in Sapiens, 7th…
Sappho in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
by Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe Abstract: This chapter examines the Anglophone receptions of Sappho’s poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining figures such as Harriette Andreadis, Margaret…
Reception and the Culture Around Classics
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