The year of Hercules

It's the year of Hercules. Before I resume my thread begun in my previous two postings (on liberating and before that rescuing Hercules), here are some updates on recent developments that bear out my starting comment.

Just before Christmas, I wrote a posting for Antipodean Odyssey, the blog managed by my Our Mythical Childhood colleague Liz Hale. This was as part of a series of 'Saturnalian Surprises,' where project members outlined something particularly expected that they had encountered in the first year of our collaborations. Mine, published on Boxing Day under the title 'How children teach us about Classics' discussed my surprise at discovering an unexpected reception, by children, of the 'Choice of Hercules' artefact that I've discussed several times already on this, my own, blog.

Then, Sonya and Steve welcomed in 2018 with a new animation where Hercules fires in the  New Year. I've only been able to save the opening frame here - if you have access to Sonya on twitter (or to @uorclassics where it was retweeted on 2 Jan) you'll be able to see Hercules in action.

This was just a taster of what Sonya and Steve will be doing this year as part of their Panoply work. And there will be plenty of Herculean content from me over the coming month, starting soon with the third of my three postings introducing my first set of autism resources.