Category: Erga

For my final Ergon I wanted to tie in another one of my favorite classes this semester. Over the last two quarters I have taken printmaking: monotype and printmaking: relief. I enjoyed both, but I think that relief printmaking will stick as a hobby. I had an extra linocut pad left over after finishing my… Continue reading Linocut Print – Francis

A question that has haunted my nightmares for the last several weeks is whether or not there could ever be a speaker/writer like Lucian of Samosata today. Lucian is a fantastic writer; his Greek is wonderful and I find him extremely funny which is something that I cannot say of many ancient comedy writers. He… Continue reading A New Lucian? Less Likely than you Think. Erga Anais Olivier

I love the Adrastus story too much not to make a drawing of it. While conceptualizing, I intuitively associate it with the Judgment tarot card. The card is usually interpreted as facing the consequences of one’s actions, judged by an impartial, impersonal cosmic force that is almost like karma (as opposed to the human intellect… Continue reading Creative Adaptation #2 by Jie

For this ergon, I did a DnD one shot with Frank, Audrey, and Ana where we went on a quest on behalf of Lady Croesus to find her husband. When I first found out that the goal of the campaign was to find out what happened to Croesus, I had assumed that this story would… Continue reading DnD One Shot – Simone

Earlier in the semester, Frank suggested that we should play Dungeons and Dragons as a class. My last DnD campaign fizzled out in early 2021 when my friends and I got too busy, so I’ve been itching to play for quite a while. After learning that we could write about our session as an ergon,… Continue reading DnD One-Shot

After presenting my apodeixis, I was very interested in other ways to incorporate DnD into my classical studies. I first had the idea to play a greek d&d one shot last year, while brainstorming for Professor Farmer’s classical mythology class, but decided that it wouldn’t fit the prompt of the assignment. I was very excited… Continue reading A Study in Marble – Frank

For this project Francis, Simone, Audrey, and I played a Dungeons & Dragons one-shot set in ancient Greece. The game also had mythological creatures pulled directly from ancient Greek myth, most notably was a gorgon. The setting was also obviously meant to emulate the popular idea of what ancient Greece was like. There were lots… Continue reading D&D One-shot Anais Olivier

On Friday, I attended the colloquium on Seneca’s Stoic Seafood by Robert Santucci, and I really enjoyed his passionate introduction of seafood’s influence on virtues, especially red mullets and oysters. An interesting point raised during the Q&A session was a comparison between Seneca’s perspective and traditional Chinese medicine. Coincidentally, I just recently addressed my tooth… Continue reading Cutting-Edge Classics – Jie

I was spurred by Simone’s apodeixis presentation to look further into whether Lucian’s True History could be considered sci-fi by the modern standard. When searching for articles that explored this question, I found a paper by Jennifer A. Rea titled “From Plato to Philip K. Dick: Teaching Classics Through Science Fiction,” containing an abstract syllabus… Continue reading Research, Reflect, Connect – Ellie

Herodotus Book 9 Summary Mardonios, the general of the invading Persian army, marched toward Athens after the Athenians refused to surrender. The Thebans advised him to bribe the Greek leaders and divide the Greeks but he refused. He led his army to occupy the deserted Athens to impress Xerxes with beacons. Mardonios offered the same… Continue reading Tiger’s Reading for Context Ergon