By Jove’s resident poet Alexander Woodward shares something he wrote about the attack on Pulse in Orlando. The poem starts below the flag if you want to skip the intro. Hello. My name is Alexander Woodward. I am By Jove’s resident poet. As a writing exercise, I am currently doing Read more…
Woody shares some thoughts on our most recent project Hello. So, on Tuesday we went into the middle of that London they have now to do a gig at Senate House Library. We were performing our adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchae, called “Before They Told You What You Are”, to an Read more…
Hello. We here at By Jove love myths. Old Stories, legends, tales from the cultural canon – call them what you will, they are excellent. As a Classicist, I have a particular bias towards the stories of ancient Greece and Rome. While By Jove’s definition goes beyond these stories, they are some Read more…
Hello, Woody again. You know the drill: scholarly hats, comfortable seat, time for more on myth. This post is another one which is weird for me. It’s not enough for me to be writing on work written by men not wearing bedsheets, or to be reading a primary source written Read more…
In this third part of his ongoing series on the historical uses and abuses of myth, Alexander Woodward, one of our in-house classicists, here addresses the Golden Age of Latin Poetry. Hello. It’s Woody again, so we’re returning to the series on uses of Myth (you can have another Read more…
In the second part of his on-going series on the uses of myth throughout history, By Jovian Alexander Woodward takes us back to where it all began… Hello, I’m Woody – welcome back to my mini-series on some of the great re-uses of myth throughout the ages. This is the Read more…