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Greta Hawes

Greta Hawes is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History and DECRA fellow at the Australian National University. She is author of Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity (2014) and Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth (forthcoming, 2021), editor of Myths on the Map (2017), and co-director of MANTO.

Greta Hawes reviews 'Antigone Rising: The subversive power of the ancient myths' by Helen Morales

October 2020, no. 425 24 September 2020
Greek myths are entirely predictable: Actaeon offends Artemis and is hunted down by his own hounds; Pentheus refuses to worship Dionysus and is ripped apart by his mother; Antigone disobeys the king, and dies for her crime. Beginning, middle, and end: so familiar, so inevitable. The trick was never really in the plot, but in what you did with it. And what Helen Morales does with Greek myth deserve ... (read more)

Greta Hawes reviews 'Revisiting Delphi: Religion and storytelling in Ancient Greece' by Julia Kindt

March 2018, no. 399 22 February 2018
Re-visiting Delphi. The re-iteration is plain necessity: if Italo Calvino is correct and the classics can only ever be reread, then even a first-time visitor to Delphi is revisiting it. That evocative sanctuary barely clinging to the slopes of Parnassus is simultaneously place and commonplace (the Greek topos encompasses both senses). In Julia Kindt’s hands, Delphi is less a space than a stage s ... (read more)