Archive - Owen’s Classical Meanderings

The Credibility Trap

The Power of Narrative.

Mar 10 •

Mystery Solved?

An Epithet fit for an Amazon Queen.

Mar 7 •

February 2025

Poetry… What is it for?

Feb 9 •

The Uniqueness of Homer

Mental meanderings and random thoughts.

Feb 8 •

A Tale of Two Cities

Mistaken identity or sour grapes?

Feb 7 •

A Voyage to Nowhere?

The Teuthranian Debacle.

Feb 5 •

Our Iliad is not Homer’s Iliad

An exercise in “original intent.”

Feb 3 •

January 2025

Dio or Don’t You?

Another short interlude while I get some more ducks in a row...

Jan 28 •

The Geography of a Legend

The Cyclic Phase and Final Phase: The Trojan War as we know it.

Jan 24 •

The Geography of a Legend

Aeolic/Anatolian Phase, the Mythopoetic Phase and Homer

Jan 22 •

The Geography of a Legend

A roadmap to history’s most misunderstood conflict.

Jan 19 •

Analytical Target Fixation

A short interlude while I get some ducks in a row...

Jan 17 •

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