Brandeis Classical Studies Community

A great guest post from Joe Goodkin on his years of touring and performing songs from the Iliad and Odyssey

Becoming Nobody: A Classics Nostos A reflection on almost 400 Odyssey shows across all 50 U.S. States and More In book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus famously recounts the story of how he came across Polyphemus the cyclops, who trap…

Some seasonal material from our faculty

What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys about the pleasures and dangers of desire.