The Guardian

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The women of Homer and Euripides hide in plain sight, in the cause and consequences of conflict, as a new British Museum exhibition shows

Guernica Magazine

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What’s the difference between “trouble” and “disaster”? For someone like Emily Wilson, it can mean everything. Fresh off her highly acclaimed translation of The Odyssey, one of The New York Times’ notable books of 2018, Wilson is now tackling The Ili

NPR

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Told from the perspective of Achilles' concubine, Briseis, Pat Barker's The Silence Of The Girls brings new life to the women of Homer's Iliad.

All About History

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Edith Hall is professor in the Classics Department at King’s Collect London, specialising in Ancient Greek literature and cultural history. She has published several books including Aristotle’s Way: Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life (The B

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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Of all the gods in Troy, Poseidon is the most irate. He’s got a beef with the Trojans, so he’s got a penchant for causing earthquakes that make it much easier to besiege the city. Closest to the myth, this method lets you cram units into a horse-head

PC Gamer

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Of all the gods in Troy, Poseidon is the most irate. He’s got a beef with the Trojans, so he’s got a penchant for causing earthquakes that make it much easier to besiege the city. Closest to the myth, this method lets you cram units into a horse-hea

ARCHAEOLOGY

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This year marks the 20 anniversary of the ancient city of Troy’s listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Çanakkale province in Turkey, Troy is the famous site of the Trojan War as first described in Homer’s Iliad. Over the centuries s

The American Scholar

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THE SPERCHEIOS RIVER—which, legend tells us, was dear to the warrior Achilles—marks the southern boundary of the great Thessalian plain in central Greece. I arrived there in late October, but it still felt like summer, and few people were around. Awa

The Guardian

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Why has the ravaged fallen city been such an inspiration to artists for millennia? Ahead of an epic show at the British Museum, our writer unravels its extraordinary influence

ARCHAEOLOGY

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The year 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the ancient city of Troy’s listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Çanakkale province in Turkey, Troy is the famous site of the Trojan War as first described in Homer’s Iliad. Over the cent

BBC History Magazine

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I recently went up to the wet and windy Lancashire coast, with trains disrupted by floods beyond Preston, to talk to the wonderful Lytham St Annes Classical Association. It’s the biggest branch of the Classical Association in the UK, with almost 600

ARCHAEOLOGY

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The year 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the ancient city of Troy’s listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Çanakkale province in Turkey, Troy is the famous site of the Trojan War as first described in Homer’s Iliad. Over the cent

The Millions

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Odysseys come in all shapes and forms, from epic to personal.  Three recent odysseys range in time and theme from ancient to dystopian.  Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey launches from Homer’s epic, 2017 National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Un

Nautilus

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Death is a universal rite of passage, but, with a single exception, it always happens to someone else. In understanding death we need to turn our gaze to those around us. This was easy when death was a feature of daily life, as it has been for most o

Country Life

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ENCHANTING, rich and diverse, this is not an archaeological investigation into the truth about a historic city—despite a section on Heinrich Schliemann’s late-19th-century excavations at Hissalik (Turkey). Rather, it’s an exhibition devoted to how th

Business Today

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Ethnic Excellence When one goes searching for that perfect watch, it has to be Swiss as Swiss brands are rated as the best in the business. But closer home, independent watch brands have started making their mark. Jaipur Watch Company is one such bra

Writing Magazine

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Five Points is a well established literary magazine published three times a year by the Georgia State University Department of English. Reported to be ‘A refreshing combination of the old and the new.’ the editorial team work hard to make it one of t

The Paris Review

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In Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.  I’ve been reading the Iliad recently, the world’s first war classic, concurrently with Jonathan Shay’s Achilles in Vietnam, which uses the epi

SHOWDETAILS MILANO NEW YORK

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MILANO September 20, 2018 Timeless women. Inheritors of distant legends. Protagonists of epic tales and contemporary stories. They are inspired by the Odyssey and read “The Penelopiad” by Margaret Atwood and “Circe” by Madeline Miller. They are moder

BBC History Magazine

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When the crowds have gone and jackdaws strut high above on the megalithic lintels, I can bask in the quiet majesty of Stone- henge. It is 40 years since I first directed an excavation there. In that time, we have learnt more about the monument and th

The Millions

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When you write a memoir, you have an unwritten pact with the reader that you have to be expose even the unattractive aspect of your narrative. I mean really embarrassing things that make you squirm and might make the reader squirm. The post The Story

Business Today

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Ethnic Excellence When one goes searching for that perfect watch, it has to be Swiss as Swiss brands are rated as the best in the business. But closer home, independent watch brands have started making their mark. Jaipur Watch Company is one such bra

Writing Magazine

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There’s still – just – time to enter The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 The London Magazine is the UK’s oldest literary journal, and through its Poetry Prize looks for new voices to publish. The first prize is £500 and there are second and third p

Chat

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WIN-£100 Puzzle 13 In the myth of the Trojan War, Odysseus and Diomedes steal a statue of which goddess from inside Troy, because the besieged city is fated not to fall while it is still in place? Solve the puzzle by following the arrows and writing

New Zealand Listener

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1. Which movie begins with the words: “People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood, but it did happen”? ❑ Old Yeller ❑ True Grit ❑ The Call of the Wild ❑ Little Women 2.

Chat It's Fate

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The rainbow is a symbol of faith and hope – it was used in the summer to show support for NHS workers, and also forms the colours of the LGBT Pride flag. In Greek mythology, Iris is the goddess of the rainbow, who serves nectar to the Olympian gods,

Literary Hub

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I own a picture of a young Ethiopian girl whom I have started to call Hirut. She is in her teens, and her hair is pulled away from her face and hangs down her back in thick braids. She wears a long Ethiopian dress and even in the aged, black-and-whit

NPR

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Natalie Haynes's new book tells the epic story of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the women involved in it. And that means all the women — from Troy and Sparta, goddesses, Amazons and more.

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry Society has announced that the world’s biggest competition for poets aged 11 to 17, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, is open for entries for the 2020 competition. Winners’ prizes include mentoring, Arvon courses, Poetry Society mem

The Paris Review

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Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Re