Category: Erga

Despite having no knowledge of Latin beyond the ability to say “in via curro” and “psittacus vinum bibit” (two things I learned from the Duolingo Latin course in 2020), I have been attending (and enjoying) the film screenings for Professor Warwick’s Ovid seminar. The first of these was Videodrome, directed by David Cronenberg, which is… Continue reading Classics Movie Screenings

For this ergon, I wanted to draw my interpretation of the scene with the vine women. Specifically, I wanted to draw the part where the men began turning into vines as well mainly because I felt that it challenged my imagination, and I wanted to see what it would look like on paper.  Whenever I… Continue reading Creative Adaptation – Simone

The moment I read Lucian’s description of the vine women, I knew I had to try and draw them. The way these women are described is confusing and a bit terrifying to imagine. The women are apparently perfectly formed from the thigh up, with a thick base of vines. The images Lucian conjures up is… Continue reading Anais Olivier – The Vine Women Creative Project

Response to Herodotus and the Greco-Persian Wars by Phiroze Vasunia In Herodotus and the Greco-Persian Wars, Vasunia looks into “The Histories” by Herodotus and attempts to extrapolate Herodotus’s view on the cause of the Greco-Persian wars. He argues that Herodotus does not give a definitive cause to explain the conflict between the Greeks and the… Continue reading Tiger’s “Research, Reflect, Connect” Ergon

Coined the “Father of History,” Herodotus constructed The Histories to catalogue his account of the Persian War, a series of infamous battles fought between the scrawny Greek city-states and the powerful Persian Empire.  Throughout his investigation of the Persian Wars, he strays from the topic at hand to share information about other civilizations. In Book… Continue reading Reading for Context Celia

For my ergon, I read an article titled The True, the False, and the Truly False: Lucian’s Philosophical Science Fiction by Roy Arthur Swanson that dived into Lucian’s potential intentions for writing True History. Swanson emphasizes that Lucian does not try to present the stories as true. Instead, he attempts to emphasize that the stories… Continue reading Research, Reflect, Connect – Simone

I attended the Penn Museum with the Classics Department, and this is my elaboration on some of the prompts given on a worksheet for students. Greek vase depicting feminine figures: One of the first objects I saw upon entering the Greek Vase room at the Penn Museum was an Attic black-figure amphora with decoration of… Continue reading Penn Museum Trip Write-up – Ellie

I was very struck by the sentence “οἱ νεηνίαι οὐκέτι ἀνέστησαν” in section 1.31 and the profound narrative blank afterwards. We will never know how their mother felt when she saw their cold bodies the next day, so I chose to imitate the multi-layered emotions through a blurry dreamlike style that is open for interpretation.… Continue reading Creative Adaptation by Jie

This Ergon is a literary analysis of 3.84-3.88 in Herodotus’s Histories. In this portion of the Histories, Herodotus tells the story of how Darius ascended to the throne. In previous lines, Herodotus tells us that Cambyses, the second king of the Persian Empire, died from a wound. His brother Smerdis inherited the throne, but according… Continue reading Tiger’s Literary Analysis 2