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a space serving as an intersection for creativity, reception, and scholarship in the classics.The Theseus Complex: A Retrospective on the Design, Build, and 1990 Sea Trials of the Olympias
Kat Moore University of ArizonaMovement and migration is an essential part of the human experience both today and in the past. We commute to work with bikes, buses, and cars. To explore new places, we can hop on an airplane and be in a completely different county in a...
Mortal Pain, Immortal Suffering
A translation by Elias Fuchsel, Amherst College
Animus Classics Journal: Vol. 4, Issues 1 and 2
We are thrilled to announce that the Fall/Winter and Spring 2024 issues of Animus Classics Journal are now available online (here and here) for viewing! This issue is the culmination of months of hard work by our authors, artists, peer reviewers, copy editors, and...
Navigating Issues of Rape and Power in the Classics Classroom
Anne Johnakin Dartmouth CollegeTW: Discussions of rape and sexual assault. Feminist Pedagogy as Applied to the Classics Classroom Classics is sometimes seen as (and taught as) a field by white men, for white men. In the past few decades, the field has broadened its...
Animus Classics Journal: Vol. 2, Issue 2
Animus is the undergraduate Classics journal from the University of Chicago. This is the third edition of Animus, published in Spring 2022.
I Came, I Saw, I Dallied: Julius Caesar’s Expedition to Egypt, 48–47 BCE
Adam Johnson University of OttawaThis piece seeks to challenge common perceptions about Julius Caesar's expedition to Egypt in 48-47 BCE. The expedition is often seen as an unnecessary undertaking, ignited solely by Caesar's supposed affection for Cleopatra rather...
Aristophanes’s Nukterides
GABRIELA GARCIA University of ChicagoContent warning: explicit language and discussion of sexual topics Note: this is a work of fiction. Produced at the Lenaia in 413, Nukterides (The Bats) is Aristophanes’s paratragic take on Sophocles’s Antigone. It opens with...
The Dollhouse: Shabtis in Tutankhamun’s Tomb
An essay by Liz Carvalho.
University of British Columbia
Animus Classics Journal: Vol. 2, Issue 1
Animus is the undergraduate Classics journal from the University of Chicago. This is the second edition of Animus, published in Winter 2022.
Tolkien’s Tale of Beren and Lúthien: A Reinvention of the Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice?
An essay by Ayush Pancholy.
University of California, Berkeley