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An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
Finally, someone in this field says what so many others have FAILED to mention throughout this film’s discourse.
Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 7d agoNew Rhea Receptions essay for a hot Thursday morning! Dr. Jeremy Swist (@metalclassicist.bsky.social) explores modern Greek identity, ancient Greece, and Homer in heavy metal, with a focus on the band Triumpher.
Since Christopher Nolan virtually excluded Greeks from telling their own story in his most recent film, I decided to focus on how Greeks are doing so in other forms of contemporary media, namely the heavy metal music that’s been thriving in that country.
Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 7d agoNew Rhea Receptions essay for a hot Thursday morning! Dr. Jeremy Swist (@metalclassicist.bsky.social) explores modern Greek identity, ancient Greece, and Homer in heavy metal, with a focus on the band Triumpher.
New Rhea Receptions essay for a hot Thursday morning! Dr. Jeremy Swist (@metalclassicist.bsky.social) explores modern Greek identity, ancient Greece, and Homer in heavy metal, with a focus on the band Triumpher.
Triumpher and Greek Heavy Metal’s Reclamation of Homer
Triumpher and Greek Heavy Metal’s Reclamation of HomerReviewed by Jeremy Swist, Michigan State University, swistjer@msu.edu Cover art for Triumpher’s Piercing the Heart of the World by Anasta.Zia (…
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This truly was one of the best reviews of Nolan's film that I've read (and I've read a bunch of them). Enjoy the read, friends 👇
Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 2w agoRhea Receptions essay up, reviewing Nolan's "The Odyssey"! This thoughtful and insightful review considers the film as a product of our current times and places it within the historical lineup of other adaptations of the Odyssey over the past century.
Rhea Receptions essay up, reviewing Nolan's "The Odyssey"! This thoughtful and insightful review considers the film as a product of our current times and places it within the historical lineup of other adaptations of the Odyssey over the past century.
Voyages in Time: The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2006)
Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks, whitingc01@doaks.org Note: Spoilers ahead Let’s get the flotsam and jetsam of a film review out of the way first. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is, as one…
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My many thanks to Dalton and Alexander for agreeing to write this with me. Check out our discussion of the first Percy Jackson book by @rickriordan.bsky.social and its film and TV adaptations!
Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 3w agoNew Rhea Receptions essay to brighten your Thursday! @amyvandervelde.bsky.social, Dalton Greene, and Alexander Maltby reflect upon @rickriordan.bsky.social's gift to all Classicists - Percy Jackson and "The Lightning Thief"! Check it out 👇
Check out this piece co-written by one of my excellent grad students Amy!
Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 3w agoNew Rhea Receptions essay to brighten your Thursday! @amyvandervelde.bsky.social, Dalton Greene, and Alexander Maltby reflect upon @rickriordan.bsky.social's gift to all Classicists - Percy Jackson and "The Lightning Thief"! Check it out 👇
New Rhea Receptions essay to brighten your Thursday! @amyvandervelde.bsky.social, Dalton Greene, and Alexander Maltby reflect upon @rickriordan.bsky.social's gift to all Classicists - Percy Jackson and "The Lightning Thief"! Check it out 👇
Percy Jackson stole our hearts, not Zeus’ master bolt: A discussion of Percy Jackson’s first adventure in “The Lightning Thief”
Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Disney Hyperion, 2005). 978-0-7868-3865-3. Chris Columbus, dir. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. 2010; Fox…
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The new Rhea Receptions series has gotten off to a good start w/ a pedagogy essay on juxtaposing novels about myths alongside primary texts. A book club I would totally join! Other genres might work, too-- hagiography or medieval lit perhaps? #rheareviews rheaclassicalreviews.com/2026/07/09/r...
Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 4w agoExciting things happening here!!! Our inaugural essay for Rhea Receptions is up, discussing how to engage students with ancient myth via 'book club' by Dr. Stephanie Kimmey! Receptions is a limited summer run of essays exploring the ancient world today and written for a general audience. Read on👇
Exciting things happening here!!! Our inaugural essay for Rhea Receptions is up, discussing how to engage students with ancient myth via 'book club' by Dr. Stephanie Kimmey! Receptions is a limited summer run of essays exploring the ancient world today and written for a general audience. Read on👇
Teaching with Book Club
Stephanie Kimmey. Weber State University. stephaniekimmey1@weber.edu The book, especially the physical format, is in its Wish List era. TBR (to be read) lists and independent bookstores are seeing …
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We will be back in your mailboxes for the inaugural installment of Rhea Receptions in a month, but in the meantime check out this article thinking through paying (article) reviewers as academic labor! It's the entire model of which Rhea runs 😎
Will Paying Reviewers Ease the Peer Review Crisis?
The few journals that have experimented with offering reviewers money—one as little as $100 per piece—are reporting faster publishing times and greater quality of work.
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Are we mostly at summer break yet? Relax into the fun books you've been meaning to read all year but never quite had time for. Start with this one 👇 Martha Shillaker reviews "J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics" by Hamish Williams (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social 2023)
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics
Hamish Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics, Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). ISBN 9781350241459. Reviewer by Martha Shillake…
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Take a break from the grading frenzy and read our newest review! @thedancinggrad.bsky.social reviews "Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition" by Cecilia Campbell (@uwiscpress.bsky.social 2024).
Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition
Celia M. Campbell, Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). 9780299348748. Reviewed by Daniel Libatique, Fairfield U…
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New review for this springtime Thursday! Christine Downton reviews "Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC" by Leah Lazar (@oxfordunipress.bsky.social 2024).
Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC
Leah Lazar, Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 9780198896265. Reviewed by Christine Downton, University of Leicester, cad38@leicester.ac.uk. The overall…
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New review for your Thursday reading pleasure! Ulla Rajala reviews "Adoption, Adaption, and Innovation in Pre-Roman Italy: Paradigms for Cultural Change" Jeremy Armstrong and Aaron Rhodes-Schroder, eds. (Brepols 2023).
Adoption, Adaption, and Innovation in Pre-Roman Italy
Jeremy Armstrong and Aaron Rhodes-Schroder (eds.), Adoption, Adaption, and Innovation in Pre-Roman Italy: Paradigms for Cultural Change, Archaeology of the Mediterranean World 3 (Turnhout: Brepols,…
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Hi All! We are taking this week off for Spring Break and will be back in your inboxes in two weeks! Stay spicy y'all 😎
New review for March madness, spring break, and everything in between! Evan Schultheis reviews "Roman Imperial Artillery: Outranging the Enemies of the Empire" by Alan Wilkins (3rd ed, Archaeopress 2024)
Alan Wilkins, Roman Imperial Artillery: Outranging the Enemies of the Empire, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024). 9781803277837.
Reviewed by Evan Schultheis, independent scholar, flavivsaetivs@gmail.com. Alan Wilkins’s Roman Imperial Artillery is written as a standard reference text for specialists and non-specialists alike,…
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Last review of February and with a bonus author dialogue!! Leslie Ivings reviews "Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AC" by Nathan Smolin (@oxfordunipress.bsky.social 2024)
Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD
Nathan Israel Smolin, Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 9780197689547.…
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Last call for Rhea Receptions this summer! Receptions is a new thematic series of reviews, essays, and engagements that bring the ancient world to a broader audience by examining public-facing, non-specialist depictions of the ancient Mediterranean in modern media. Come write and explore with Rhea!
Rhea Receptions
Introducing Rhea Receptions is a new thematic series comprised of reviews, essays, and other engagements with the ancient world in pop culture and not restricted to academic, peer-reviewed publicat…
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New review before Valentine's Day! A. Everett Beek shows some love for "Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei: Specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici" by Ria Berg (L’Erma di Bretschneider 2023)
Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei
Ria Berg, Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei: Specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023). 9788891327406. Reviewed by A. Everett Beek, Case Western Reserve Un…
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Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that – as of December 2025 – we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the …
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New review for a chilly Thursday! Khadija Saigol reviews "Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel" by Robert Cioffi ( @oxfordunipress.bsky.social 2024)
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Gre
Robert Cioffi, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 9780192870537. Reviewed by Khadija Saigol, University of Victoria, ksaigol@uvic.ca. Cioffi’s monog…
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New review to start off your 2026 - be sure to read the insightful discussion at the end! David M. Wheeler reviews "Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the 12th IEMA Visiting Scholar’s Conference" Kevin Garstki, ed. (UCLA - Cotsen). rheaclassicalreviews.com/2026/01/15/w...
Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the 12th IEMA Visiting Scholar’s Conference
Kevin Garstki, ed., Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the 12th IEMA Visiting Scholar’s Conference (Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2022). 9781950446261…
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For all those at AIA/SCS, come find us! We will be at the AIA resource fair 12-2 PM! Come and talk to us about writing a review or participating in Rhea Receptions this summer (rheaclassicalreviews.com/rhea-recepti...), make a donation, or just grab free stickers.
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Rhea Classical Reviews@rheaclassical.bsky.social · 7mo agoBut we need your help in putting our principles into practice and we are currently fundraising to support these efforts. Donations can be accepted via PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, cash, or check, and donors will receive a RCR sticker and be listed on our website as “Children of Rhea.”
New year, new Rhea! Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.
We are taking our holiday break and will be back in your feed come mid-January. May all of you find some well-deserved rest and relaxation, and we hope to see those who will be at the @archaeological.org @scsclassics.bsky.social annual meeting (come find us - we'll have stickers)!
New review to get you through the end of the semester, and check out that insightful dialogue at the end! @bacchicxsapphic.bsky.social reviews "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean" ed. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)
The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean
Hannah-Marie Chidwick, ed. The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 9781350240872. Reviewed by Allyson Blanck, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,…
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