Author: Siobhan McElduff
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Suetonius’ Nero
There isn’t a good English commentary for this life, and I wanted to teach it so I put together one and have been working though Nero with it this term. There’s still some issues (so many issues), but – and this is not claiming a great deal – it’s better than the one that is…
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Seamus
I don’t write poetry very often, but here is something I’m trying to help with loss: I think about Cicero, An old man weeping for his lost Tullia, ‘I bury myself in a dark, bitter wood’, he writes, As Atticus tells him to be more Roman. ‘I talk only with my books but I cannot…
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The Kingly Garland, Being an account of a monarch of Greece
This is one of my favourite chapbook ballads on a classical theme, and is the story of Oedipus with his name removed. It opens with a variation on the typical ‘come all you’ of the standard ballad opening: You that have hard hearts, that never could repent, Or eyes from whose lids tears were never…
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A little spell book, created from Greek and Roman spells.
I created this a while back for some talks I gave. 100% authentic (and mostly easy) Greek and Roman magic!
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