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Friedrich Engels

“The bourgeoisie have raised monuments to the classics. If they’d read them, they’d have burned them.”

- Friedrich Engels
Nikos the Cretan

Nikos the Cretan

Posted on May 31, 2022 in CL4468 Student blog

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: Anti-War Agitator

Posted on Nov 23, 2021 in CL4468 Student blog

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 […]