Autism and Classical Myth

Susan Deacy

Monday, 20 April 2020

Hercules reaches the garden but is then expelled, de-centered or omitted. So... do Pleasure and Virtue need a man in the middle?

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In the previous posting, I got to a point I’d been aiming for for a while. I wrote about the curious place Hercules reaches – the place wh...
Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Hercules reaches a strange place... finally

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In the previous posting, I said that what I am especially interested in is not the Labours of Hercules, but an episode that is less well-k...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020

The labours of Hercules - why and how they still matter, though not necessarily for my project

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I’m still not quite ready to do what I promised a few postings ago, namely to discuss “Hercules in a strange place.” This current posting ...
Thursday, 9 April 2020

Inching towards Hercules – while sharing some obstacles, including 'Classics'

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In the previous posting, I got the closest so far over this current set of blog posts to Hercules – via “Phil,” one of the sidekicks throu...
Monday, 6 April 2020

“Autistic kids are not supposed to do that” - Sidekicks, being autistic and... Hercules (Hope-bearer 4)

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In my previous posting, I looked at a way of seeing autism that's been proposed by a range of autistic people, namely that it's a w...
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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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