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The blinding of Polyphemus

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A scene on an amphora from Eleusis, near Athens, is the earliest representation of the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus and his men.

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Odysseus the jerk

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While modern audiences tend to be sympathetic towards the trickster hero Odysseus, a closer look reveals him to be a terrible person.

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The language of tyranny

Published 6 days ago

Different types of government use different language. A short treaty from Athens provides an example of this from the ancient world.

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The suicide of Ajax

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The suicide of the hero Ajax, the result of a dispute over the ownership of Achilles’ armour, was a popular motif in Archaic Greek art.

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Lucretia and the archetype of Etruscan promiscuity

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Scholarship has tended to downplay the promiscuity of Etruscan women as described by Greek sources. But with evolving modern sexual sensibilities, perhaps a different approach is required.

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The jumping priests of Rome

Published 2 weeks ago

A reference to the Salii as “jumping priests of Mars” leads me to wonder: who were these Roman priests and why did they jump?

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Real estate for the dead

Central Italian hut urns

Published 2 weeks ago

During the Early Iron Age, the peoples of Central Italy sometimes placed the ashes of the dead in urns modelled after huts or houses.

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A tale of three cities

Zagora, Hypsele, and Andros

Published 2 weeks ago

The eighth century BC was a time of great change in the Early Iron Age Aegean. One of these changes is exemplified by the reorganization of settlements on the Cycladic island of Andros.

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Making ancient Greek vases

A look at red- and black-figure pottery

Published 3 weeks ago

In this article, we examine the differences between red- and black-figure vases and go through the process of how they were made.

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