Antiquity & Absurdity Literary Society
Mythology, classical literature, historical curiosities, and the absurdity of being human.
Absurdity 
Have you ever wondered what happens when a pricey communications agency has to invent the name for a new brand? The scene is almost always the same: a six-hour meeting …
We all know the polished, schoolbook version: Odysseus returns to Ithaca dressed in rags, strings his bow, slaughters the suitors without taking many prisoners, and is recognized by Penelope through …
With the arrival of October, the days get shorter and the Halloween atmosphere begins to permeate everyday life. Our imagination is inevitably captured by a visual icon of rare and …
Today we enter a border territory where Greek mythology, classical philology, cultural anthropology and neuroscience intersect, generating one of the most fascinating, radical and debated hypotheses of the twentieth century. …
We tend to think of keyboard warriors, social-media troublemakers, and negative TripAdvisor reviews as exclusive by-products of the modern age: a deviation born with Web 2.0 and free Wi-Fi. We …