In Defense of Hospitality and Storytelling
As an English professor and public speaker, I am afforded many opportunities to guide students of all ages and backgrounds through Homer’s Odyssey. One thing I love to emphasize along […]
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Category: Issue Fifteen
Sede Vacante
In ‘Sede Vacante’, the author combines stories from the Greek myths with a corresponding mythical Fate to illustrate the Fall of man and his inability to solve his fallen state […]
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Wisdom Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us: Pagan Dreams of the King of Kings
Of Plato’s most ambitious dialogue, the Republic, Christian scholar John Mark Reynolds writes, “In all pagan literature it is the single book that never fails to teach something new and […]
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Vengeance Is Mine, Saith Everyone
Though the theme of ‘vengeance’ is clearly everywhere in Aeschylus’s Oresteia, it is hard to know what exactly is meant by the term. Is vengeance a type of justice or […]
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Excerpt from Strength in Weakness: Myth Reimagined
Epigraph Theseus, Great and Mighty! Can you hear it in your sleep? As you rest in foolish pride, the wise and truthful weep. Listen to the sound, their accorded […]
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Worth Reading: The Ancients
Worth Reading is An Unexpected Journal’s book recommendations column. Each issue we highlight a few titles, related to that issue’s theme, that are recommended by AUJ staff, contributors, or readers. […]
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Ancients of Old
So many times, we are pushed to look at contemporary work because it’s new and innovative. Yet, we forget that there would not be anything we consider modern without the […]
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The Return of the Kings: Comparing the Homecoming of Odysseus and the Two Comings of Christ
After twenty years of suffering and wandering, Odysseus finally returns to his home country of Ithaca. He knows that in his absence, wicked men have taken up residence in his […]
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Review: After Humanity
Michael Ward. After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire Academic, 2021. 243 pp. Initial Impressions A review is […]
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Pius Samwise: Roman Heroism in The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien received early training in the classics under Robert Cary Gilson when he studied at King Edward’s, an independent secondary school in Birmingham. According to Tolkien’s official biographer, Humphrey […]
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