The Astyanax

Literature

Essay

The Elimination of the 'Female' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Creation without a Woman

Hector Hallett · 22 August 2026

Politics

Essay

Existential Politics: How Competing Crises Are Fragmenting UK Politics

Ralph Thomsen · 12 July 2026

Politics

Essay

Why Should You Vote?

Ralph Thomsen · 5 July 2026

Literature

Essay

The Creature as Eve: Liminality in Shelley’s Frankenstein

and the Fragmented Self in Early Modernist Thought

Hector Hallett · 12 June 2026

Literature

Essay

Paris France, Gertrude Stein

To Be Fashionable and To Be Logical

Hector Hallett · 12 June 2026

Classics

Lecture · 43 min

Homer's Iliad Explained: Books 6–12

Hector Hallett · 9 August 2026

Classics

Lecture · 17 min

'Peira' in Books 2–5 of Homer's Iliad

Hector Hallett · 29 July 2026

History

Lecture · 47 min

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous: Lord Byron (Part 1)

Hector Hallett · 16 July 2026

Literature

Lecture · 9 min

On Being Lost: Dante's Inferno

Hector Hallett · 6 July 2026

Classics

Lecture · 22 min

'Kleos' in Book 1 of Homer's Iliad

Hector Hallett · 26 June 2026

Literature

Lecture · 1h 14min

James Joyce: Why He's Worth the Effort

Hector Hallett · 19 June 2026

Literature

Lecture · 35 min

An Introduction to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Hector Hallett · 13 June 2026