Saturday, 3 May 2025

Announcing a course on classical myth and a guest post on Myth and Mystery

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This month and next, I shall be teaching a weekly, Wednesday evening UK time, course on classical myth for the Hellenic and Roman Societies ...
Wednesday, 2 April 2025

On World Autism Day 2025: ‘sensory exaggeration’, Ellie Mackin Roberts, and how scholarship, like autism, is a way of being

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On this  World Autism Day , I am having my cake and eating it by contributing to a pattern where people: a)      stress that autism is not j...
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Sunday, 5 January 2025

And the monster is...

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In my previous post, I announced a turn in this blog away from a hero, Hercules, to a monster. I said that I would be using the monster in q...
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Monday, 9 December 2024

Who picks the apple? The hero or... something else? Announcing this blog's monstrous turn

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Who picks the apple from the tree at the world's end? Is it the hero, or... something else? For around half the time this blog has been ...
Monday, 10 June 2024

Snakes, rivers, launching the book and conferencing in Herculean spaces - some notes on my time in Warsaw in May 2024

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When I last posted to this blog, I was looking forward to a key milestone: the launch of my book in the cafe Life is Cool in Warsaw where, o...
Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Announcing the launch of my 'Herculean' book for autistic children in Warsaw on Tuesday 21 May!

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Come early spring of 2020, I was all set to head for a week or so to Warsaw. The flight was booked. I knew where I'd be staying. I was e...
Tuesday, 30 April 2024

In the labyrinth with Cora Beth Fraser and other attendees at a University College Dublin classical seminar during Autism Month 2024

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I ended my previous posting promising further information about what I've been up to during Autism Month 2024 - including concerning a t...