Aug 1, 20227 minFrogs - My ThoughtsFrogs at its surface could quite adequately be described as a collection of poop jokes wrapped in an arguably convoluted plot about...
May 22, 20214 minThe Augustus of Primaporta - My Thoughts“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” After years of civil war, Rome had finally entered an age of peace, and as...
Mar 4, 20215 minMedea - My ThoughtsIn this week’s review, I am looking at what was one of the most controversial plays in the ancient world, and what is now one of the most...
Jan 2, 20214 minThe Oresteia - My ThoughtsIn this week’s review, I am looking at the Oresteia by Aeschylus, which is composed of three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and...
Oct 19, 20205 minThe Odyssey - My ThoughtsIn this week’s review, I am looking at Homer’s Odyssey. When first starting to read classical literature, I started where many others...
Aug 31, 20203 minSilence of the Girls - My ThoughtsIn this week's review, I am looking at Pat Barker’s Silence of the Girls. Just to start, I'm a massive fan of Greek mythological...
Aug 14, 20203 minPhiloctetes - My ThoughtsIn this week's review, I am looking at Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Now just to start, I am a fan of the character, the idea of this master...
Jul 28, 20202 minPrometheus Bound — My ThoughtsIn this week’s review, I was going to look at Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.” As I’ve mentioned in my review of Mythos, the story of...
Jul 22, 20205 minThe song of Achilles — My ThoughtsIn the past week, I was searching for books related to the classical world, at which point I remember that my teacher had graciously put...
Jul 21, 20204 minCirce — My ThoughtsIn today’s piece of evidence, I’m going to review Madeline Miller’s Circe and talk about different things we can learn from it. I think...
Jul 21, 20205 minClassics: Why It’s Worth Studying And How To Give Life To A Once Great SubjectIn this week’s piece of evidence, I was going to look at how we can spread classics and how to get today’s generation as well as the very...
Jul 21, 20203 minAjax — My ThoughtsIn this week’s piece of evidence I was going to look at Sophocles’ Ajax, and the several themes it brings up such as hubris, redemption,...