Autism and Classical Myth

Susan Deacy

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Mythical Hope 9 - Cultural heritage or cultural baggage?

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Over the course of the Hope-themed postings I’ve been putting up since late September, I have written on a few occasions about worlds – th...
Thursday, 14 November 2019

Mythical Hope 8 – Two monster stories... from Hydra heads to Hydra babies

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The previous posting stared to relate why it is Hercules that I am offering as the focus of my activities for autistic children. Here, I ru...
Thursday, 7 November 2019

Mythical Hope 7 - But Hercules is horrible...

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Hercules being horrible?  Hercules and Lernaean Hydra,  California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Details here ...
Monday, 4 November 2019

Mythical Hope 6 - Hope: gateway between worlds, from Pandora to Iago...

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With this posting, I turn back – explicitly – to Hope. One thing I have been trying to covey so far with these postings is that Hope in...
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019

On cripantiquity and becoming an ancientist :)

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Hope-themed postings will resume soon - though in a sense everything I write on this blog is hope-fuelled? I'm sharing something th...
Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Mythical Hope 5 - From an autistic place unlike earth, and why there's no need to mourn

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I called my previous posting “ So: Mourn For Us? ” That posting was concerned with the hardships autistic people supposedly face – how they...
Monday, 14 October 2019

Mythical Hope 4 - Life is hard: so mourn for us?

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In the decade and a bit that I’ve been blogging on autism and classical myth a lot has changed from the ‘classical’ side, not least due to ...
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Susan Deacy
London, United Kingdom
I am a classicist who researches and teaches ancient Greece, especially its mythmaking. This interest has led to various projects on deities and other personages and on what they meant in antiquity and what they have meant, and can mean, since then, including for autistic people. I have written several books, including one which presents a set of Hercules-themed activities for autistic children. For some of my initiatives, including around trying to diversify Classics, I won a National Teaching Fellowship (2015) and became a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2016). I hold several academic positions including at Bristol University where I'm currently Honorary Professor.
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