Nikos the Cretan
by Anna Coopey Through the kind provision of the Laura Cook Memorial Travel Scholarship, given to me by The University of St Andrews School of Classics Travel Scholarship Committee, I was able to travel to Crete in May 2022 in order to undertake some research on Nikos Kazantzakis and his radical receptions of classical antiquity. […]
Thersites: Anti-War Agitator
Thersites might be easily overlooked in the Iliad. In Book 2 he is described as brutish and ugly. [1] But he is a man of action. He stands up to Agamemnon and the other leaders of the Greeks, encouraging his fellow soldiers to stop throwing away their lives for the commanders and some rich man’s […]
