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Ajax: Clean Out Your Soul

By Ben Potter Aias to the Greeks, Aiax to the Romans, now known to us as the anglicized Ajax, he was ‘the best of all men that ever came to Troy, save only Achilles’. However, Ajax’s status as number two in the Greek pecking order wasn’t always fully appreciated. After Achilles perished when the arrow

Written on May 10, 2022 at 12:21 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Heroes

Tags: Achilles' armor, Ajax, Greek Tragedy, Odysseus, Sophocles

Odysseus and Aeneas: Ancient Ideals of Heroism

by Andrew Aulner, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom A quote attributed to Steve Jobs says, “You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.” The ancient Greeks and Romans were certainly no different. In antiquity, poetry was considered one of the highest forms of cultural expressions, and no heroes are

Written on April 14, 2022 at 2:39 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Heroes

Tags: Aeneas, Heroes, Homer, Odysseus, Virgil

The Trojan Legend

by Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom To literary-minded ‘Moderns’ (if we can be so contrasted with the ‘Ancients’) the broad contents of the Iliad and Odyssey are quite familiar. Indeed, tales of wrathful Achilles, fearsome Ajax, tragic Hector, Sirens, Cyclopes, Circe, Suitors etcetera are well-known even to those who have not read both epics

Written on March 14, 2022 at 1:13 am, by Ben Potter

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Helen of Troy, iphigenia, Odysseus, Priam, Trojan War, Troy

Classical Allusions in James Joyce’s Ulysses

by Sean Kelly, Managing Editor, Classical Wisdom A century ago today, James Joyce’s daring masterpiece Ulysses was first published. It has since been acclaimed as a landmark in literary history, and (by some) as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Yet its roots go much deeper. As its title suggests, the novel features a

Written on February 2, 2022 at 7:30 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Literature

Tags: Homer, James Joyce, literature, Odysseus, The Odyssey

Dante’s Ulysses and Poetic Presumption

by Justin D. Lyons, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Dante’s epic poem, The Divine Comedy (completed in 1320) is full of allusions. As readers travel the road through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, they are everywhere confronted with names and stories stretching back to classical mythology. The classicist will find a great many familiar characters. But one

Written on January 25, 2022 at 11:31 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Dante, Odysseus, The Divine Comedy, Ulysses, Virgil

Is it WRONG to be nostalgic?

Perhaps it’s most striking when you are a new parent. I remember clearly bringing home my baby girl from the hospital. She was a whopping 2 kilos/4.4 lbs (even after a month of NICU) and those first months were hard. Very hard. The sleep deprivation was real. Very real. The constant worrying… the fussing, the

Written on October 19, 2021 at 1:03 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Dialectics

Tags: iliad, Nostalgia, Nostaligic, Nostos, Odysseus, Odyssey, Swiss Mercenaries

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