Autism and Classical Myth

Susan Deacy

Wednesday, 23 September 2020

What I'm currently doing while not blogging yet immersed in writing about Hercules

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I've been visiting this blog a good deal lately - indeed, I've recently re-read pretty well each posting I've out up since I got...
Wednesday, 9 September 2020

"To marry him?": When a second class of students at an autism base met Hercules...

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In the previous posting, I ran through what happened at a session on “Meeting Hercules” at a primary school’s autism base a couple of years ...
Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Meeting Hercules: with students at a primary school's Autism Base

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A couple of years ago, I experienced for the first time something key for the classical myth-themed resources I have been designing for auti...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

What Hercules has been doing in children’s literature since the 1970s

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Here are the reflections I promised last week on some trends in how Hercules is used in children’s literature. I mentioned last week that th...
Tuesday, 18 August 2020

More on why I'm investigating Hercules in children's literature: because there's so MUCH

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In the previous posting, put up yesterday, I listed a sample of recent children’s books involving Hercules. I am currently writing about the...
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Monday, 17 August 2020

Why I'm currently investigating Hercules in children's literature

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Over the past few weeks, I have been doing some hands-on investigating how classics is presented for children, and to a degree how children ...
Wednesday, 29 July 2020

"Respect animals" - and how a chapter on the Hydra might inform activities for autistic children

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As I admitted in my previous – short – posting, I’ve not regularly posted to this blog for a few weeks. Here’s why! In the time since ...
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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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