Unmasking the Many-Faced God: Dionysus as a Figure of Fluidity in Archaic and Classical Greece

Author: Tahlia Antrobus Sub-editor: Fergus Sinnott Image credit: A Bacchanalian Revel by R.A. William Etty, and The Priestess of Bacchus by John Collier. Of all the gods shrouded in mystery and possessing confusing mythos, Dionysus was arguably one of the most prevalent in ancient Greece. To the Greeks of the Hellenistic period, he was their culture – their…

Context and its Consequences: The Mystery of Median Art

Author: Bridget Bracken Sub-editor: Pamela Piechowicz Image Credit: Medes and Persians at eastern stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis. Wikipedia Commons. The Iron-Age Iranian peoples known as the Medes, and the classification of their art, are one of the most controversial topics in Near Eastern archaeology. Whether there is art that can be classified as definitively “Median” and…

Alleviating Anxiety with the Book of the Dead

Author: Bridget Bracken Sub-editor: Pamela Piechowicz Image Credit: A vignette in The Papyrus of Ani, from Spell 30B: Spell For Not Letting Ani's Heart Create Opposition Against Him, in the Gods' Domain, which contains a depiction of the ba of the deceased. Wikipedia Commons. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or Book of Going Forth by Day, reveals…

Plato and the ‘Noble Lie’

Plato and the 'Noble Lie' by Kiara Wang

Her Property: White Women as Slave Mistresses in the Antebellum South

Her Property: White Women as Slave Mistresses in the Antebellum South by Pavani Athukorala