# trojan war (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover trojan war. Page: Feed: --- ## [Augustus and Propaganda](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/augustus-and-propaganda) _2026-08-21 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ How Rome’s First Emperor Ruled ## [Will There Be “Crazy” People?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/will-there-be-crazy-people-965) _2026-08-20 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ A Symposium on the Sea... ## [The Parthenon Marbles: A Counterpoint](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/the-parthenon-marbles-a-counterpoint) _2026-08-19 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ What Is the Best Way to Change Someone's Mind? Discussing the controversy of Lord Elgin, Lord Byron and the fate of Greece's famed artifacts... ## [Is Eating Meat Moral?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/is-eating-meat-moral-a0d) _2026-08-17 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Carnivores vs Vegans: What is better? ## [Weekly Wisdom Quiz](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/weekly-wisdom-quiz-b26) _2026-08-16 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ Magic & Mysteries in the Ancient World ## [Did Odysseus Found Rome?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/did-odysseus-found-rome) _2026-08-14 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ The Mysterious Proto-Romans ## [Homeric details and other influences in Nolan's The Odyssey (2026)](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/08/nolan.html) _2026-08-14 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ There are already tons of reviews of The Odyssey (2026) out there, including many by classical scholars. I’m no movie expert, so this isn’t a review. But I can sometimes spot little details and recognise where they’ve come from. Nolan’s film diverges from Homer in major respects, but there are also points of detail that it treats more carefully than it needs to. And the film doesn’t just draw on ## [One Last Invitation](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/one-last-invitation) _2026-08-13 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Your 24-Hour Head Start - Enjoy our exclusive Members Only reservation for our 2027 Journey with Professor Angie Hobbs ## [Can We Return to an Enchanted World?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/can-we-return-to-an-enchanted-world) _2026-08-13 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Has modern life become too disenchanted? Brown University professor Michael Satlow explores what we've gained, and perhaps lost, since the ancient world. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211031482/07e844b01355d33843cfde072cdbf9fb.mp3) ## [One Word. Six Clues. Can You Guess It?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/one-word-six-clues-can-you-guess) _2026-08-10 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ The Ancient Word Challenge ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/S0AeziffY9Gx) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [How Greek Myths & Maths Shaped the World](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/how-greek-myths-and-maths-shaped) _2026-08-09 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ The Weekly Wisdom Quiz ## [The Birth of the Gods](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-the-gods) _2026-08-07 · Sean · Classical Wisdom_ Greek Myth's Origin Story ## [Are You Ready for LifeMaxxing?](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/are-you-ready-for-lifemaxxing) _2026-08-06 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ Why watch history... when you can sail through it? Journey on the Blue Zephyr this April. ## [Golden Thigh](https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/golden-thigh) _2026-08-05 · Anya Leonard · Classical Wisdom_ The Strange World of Pythagoras ## [The cave of the Nymphs: Odyssey 13.96–112](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/cave-of-nymphs.html) _2026-07-31 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ The Phaiakes deliver Odysseus to his home island, Ithake, leaving him asleep on the shore. When he wakes up, he hides their gifts to him in a nearby cave: At the head of the harbour is a long-leafed olive tree; and near it, a cave, lovely and shaded, sacred to Nymphs, who are called Naiads. In it there are jars and amphoras of stone; and bees store honey in them. And there are stone ## [Odysseus’ wanderings](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/wanderings.html) _2026-07-27 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ Odysseus’ wanderings are the most famous sequence in Homer’s Odyssey. The Cyclops, the Lotus-eaters, and Circe are some of the epic’s most memorable parts, even though the wanderings as a whole occupy only one sixth of the poem. On one level, they’re pretty clearly envisaged as taking place in an Otherworld, like a portal fantasy or isekai. On another level, they have strong links to real ## [The Odyssey on screen: a catalogue](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/onscreen.html) _2026-07-16 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ A catalogue of onscreen versions of the Odyssey. This list includes metatheatrical versions, parodies, and adaptations of parodies (including James Joyce’s novel Ulysses). Dan Renalds as Telemachus, Kelly B. Jones as Penelope, and Dylan Vox as Odysseus (Troy: the Odyssey, 2017) Year Title Director / medium Country Actors: ‘Odysseus’, ‘Penelope’, ‘ ## [History and the Odyssey](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/odyssey.html) _2026-07-03 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ The Odyssey is coming out soon, a feature film starring Matt Damon, and directed and written by Christopher Nolan. Various online pundits have already criticised it, focusing on historical authenticity — faithfulness to some preconceived idea of how the world in the film ought to look. Why isn’t Odysseus’ armour consistent with Bronze Age armour? Why does his ship look like a viking longship? ## [Problems with Cline on The Trojan War. Ch. 4 ‘The Hittite texts’](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/04/cline-2.html) _2026-04-19 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ Eric Cline’s book The Trojan War: a very short introduction (Oxford, 2013) argues that the classical Greek myth of the Trojan War is based on a historical conflict. Previously we looked at chapter 3, where Cline argues that the Homeric Iliad portrays Bronze Age events in a Bronze Age setting. As we saw, all the claims cited as evidence turned out to be unrepresentative, baseless, or simply untrue ## [Problems with Cline on The Trojan War. Ch. 3 ‘Homeric questions’](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/04/cline-1.html) _2026-04-10 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ Eric Cline’s The Trojan War: a very short introduction (Oxford, 2013) is an appealing book, charmingly written, but inaccurate and misleading in many essential respects. It is designed to be influential, part of a well promoted series. But because it is a short popular book, it was not reviewed in academic journals. Its influence warrants much greater scrutiny than its format suggests. Contrary ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Pfbt5vt2Ct6s) _2026-04-10 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [Gospel citations of scripture](https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2025/05/citations.html) _2025-10-11 · Peter Gainsford · Kiwi Hellenist_ A catalogue of citations of scripture in the canonical Christian gospels, by way of a note to myself. Some caveats, terms, and conditions: The gospels don’t quote the Hebrew Bible. They quote Greek texts. They don’t exactly quote the Septuagint either, because there were multiple ‘Septuagint’ recensions, but we can call it ‘Septuagint’ so long as we’re clear that it’s a Septuagint and not the