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In three years, Cicero fell from grace and found himself ridiculed and rejected by the Roman aristocracy he had toiled strenuously to become part of. When Clodius burned down his house on the Palatine Hill in 58 BC, the destruction of the symbolic marker of his political reputation dealt a great blow to Cicero’s ego. The following year, he returned from exile and fought to get his house back at public expense, detailed in De Domo Sua . He managed to regain favor in his speech

Once again, the style of this post is a bit different from my previous ones. Instead of doing short, blurb-ish myth retelling like the ones I did over the summer, I'm going to try to shift the content of my blog into research. The following is a slightly modified version of a research paper I completed over the past two months, complete with Thesis and Bibliography. The following is my original research. Enjoy! Introduction  Since its conception, race has always been in conve

Sigmund Freud For all my craze about Freud and classics, I do have to admit that there are several valid critiques of Freudian theory out there. For one, Freud’s psychoanalysis is not backed in science. His theories on the “Oedipal” or the “phallic” are mere metaphors with no valid substance backing them outside of the fictional stories from which they are culled. What, then, makes psychoanalysis a worthy method of studying classics? According to the classicist Ellen Oliensis

I've expressed my admiration for Ovid before, and I will recite it again. For one of the greatest collections of classical mythology, Metamorphoses is a treasure mine of stories fit for psychoanalysis. So, I present to you today the story of an naïve mortal and a wicked erotic god, cursed with loving (in whatever sense of the word) each other.  Psyche was the most beautiful girl on Earth. Suitors, both mortal and divine, came to seek out Psyche from all corners of Greece. Wo