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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

Another common gripe that I have with classical retellings is that their protagonists fall into either the archetype of the uninspiring...

In honor of Hades finally leaving Netflix Games after a year-long sojourn, the spirit of Eurydice has compelled me to revitalize my...

When I say that my favorite writer is a dead Roman whose thousand-year-old verses could contend with the likes of Eminem, people give me weird looks. Though his poems were explicit even by today’s standard, Catullus nonetheless pioneered the style of lyric poetry in celebrating the sensual joys of life—drinking, dancing, queerness, loving—topics ostracized in Roman society. Reducing his achievements to pages of sacrilege, flabbergasted critics slandered Catullus for not confo