Our Mythical Nature: People
![Jerzy Axer](/assets/images/photos/axer.png)
Jerzy Axer
Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Reading from Genesis (3:1–24) for Animals
![Alessia Borriello](/assets/images/photos/borriello.png)
Alessia Borriello
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna / Erasmus Programme
alessia.borriello2@studio.u...
Olympus Ready-to-Wear: A Game for Children
![Rachel Bryant-Davies](/assets/images/photos/davies.png)
Rachel Bryant-Davies
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London
“The frailty of sublunary things”: Classical Myth, Pedagogical Media, and Moral Education in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
![Krishni Burns](/assets/images/photos/burns.png)
Krishni Burns
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Mythical Skyscapes: Constellation Myths in Educational Picture Books
![Veronique Dasen](/assets/images/photos/dasen.png)
Veronique Dasen
Department of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg
From Greek Amulets to Contemporary Jewelry: The Secret Agency of Nature and Animals in the Life Cycle of Young Individuals
![Eleanor A. Dasi](/assets/images/present/people/dasi.png)
Eleanor A. Dasi
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Nature Dynamics: From Descriptive to Prescriptive Nature Images in Yael Farber's "Molora"
![Susan Deacy](/assets/images/photos/deacy.png)
Susan Deacy
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton
"Hercules [...] went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering" (Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.21): What Happened Here and Why It 'Speaks' to Autistic Children
![Robin Diver](/assets/images/photos/diver.png)
Robin Diver
Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham
The Problem of Animals and Rape: Children's Anthology Adaptations of the God Pan
![Raimund Fichtel](/assets/images/photos/fichtel.png)
Raimund Fichtel
Department of Greek an Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
raimund.fichtel@klassphil.u...
The “Venus Grotto“ of Ludwig II. of Bavaria – The Childhood Dream of a Gentle Tiberius
![Frances Foster](/assets/images/photos/ffoster.png)
Frances Foster
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Gods and Landscape in Megan Whalen Turner’s “The Thief”
![Elizabeth Hale](/assets/images/photos/hale.png)
Elizabeth Hale
School of Arts, University of New England
Witi Ihimaera’s “Whale Rider” and the Ulysses of the Pacific
![Edith Hall](/assets/images/photos/hall.png)
Edith Hall
Department of Classics, King's College London
Muscular Christian Classicism: Nature, Race and (Anti-)Science in Charles Kingsley's "The Water Babies"
![Owen Hodkinson](/assets/images/people/hodkinson_small.png)
Owen Hodkinson
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds
Shaggy Dog Stories: Two Novels of Odysseus' Dog Argos
![Markus Janka](/assets/images/photos/janka.png)
Markus Janka
Department of Greek an Latin Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
markus.janka@klassphil.uni-...
“Mens antiqua manet” – “The Mind of Old Remains” (Ovid, “Metamorphoses” 2.485): Humanized Animals in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and Contemporary Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature
![Katarzyna Jerzak](/assets/images/photos/jerzak.png)
Katarzyna Jerzak
Institute of Modern Languages, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
A Dead Bird and a Cenotaph: Echoes of Antiquity in Janusz Korczak’s “King Matt on the Desert Island” (1923) and Margaret Wise Brown’s “The Dead Bird” (1938)
![Jan Kieniewicz](/assets/images/photos/kieniewicz.png)
Jan Kieniewicz
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mytho-picture: Combining Myth and Nature in the Patriotic Landscape
![Przemysław Kordos](/assets/images/photos/kordos.png)
Przemysław Kordos
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Low Fantasy, High Conscience: Ecology in Some Exomimetic Worlds
![Karolina Anna Kulpa](/assets/images/present/people/kulpa.png)
Karolina Anna Kulpa
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Antiquity Flavours in the Literary Cuisine of Małgorzata Musierowicz
![Christian Laes](/assets/images/photos/laes.png)
Christian Laes
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
christian.laes@manchester.a...
Antiquity's Childhood and Toys in Alfredo Bartoli's "Filius ad Matrem Reversus" (1950)
![Helen Lovatt](/assets/images/photos/lovatt.png)
Helen Lovatt
Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham
Bernard Evslin and the Clashing Rocks
![Nick Lowe](/assets/images/photos/lowe.png)
Nick Lowe
Department of Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London
What is it Like to be an Elephant?
![Katarzyna Marciniak](/assets/images/photos/marciniak.png)
Katarzyna Marciniak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Geralt on Climate Strikes: Ancient Motifs and Ecology in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Short-Stories of the Witcher Cycle
![Lisa Maurice](/assets/images/photos/maurice.png)
Lisa Maurice
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
The God Pan in Children’s Fiction and Culture
![Anna Mik](/assets/images/photos/mik.png)
Anna Mik
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mythical Labyrinthine Nature in Jan Bajtlik’s "Greek Myths and Mazes"
![Sheila Murnaghan](/assets/images/photos/murnaghan.png)
Sheila Murnaghan
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Secret Lives of Trees: Tales of Natural Transformation in Classical Myths for Children
![Divine Che Neba](/assets/images/photos/neba.png)
Divine Che Neba
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Nature Dynamics: From Descriptive to Prescriptive Nature Images in Yael Farber's "Molora"
![Sonya Nevin](/assets/images/photos/nevin.png)
Sonya Nevin
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Imagining Africa: Classical Antiquity in the Brontë Juvenilia
![Daniel A. Nkemleke](/assets/images/photos/nkemleke.png)
Daniel A. Nkemleke
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Nature Dynamics: From Descriptive to Prescriptive Nature Images in Yael Farber's "Molora"
![Elżbieta Olechowska](/assets/images/photos/olechowska.png)
Elżbieta Olechowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Nothing Ancient Resonates with Children as Deeply as the Concept of an Animal Daemon. Philip Pullman’s Scenario for the Human-Animal Bond.
![Beatrice Palmieri](/assets/images/photos/palmieri.png)
Beatrice Palmieri
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna / Erasmus Programme
beatrice.palmieri@studio.un...
Gianni Rodari and the Myth of Atalanta: The Role of Nature in Knowledge of Culture
![Hanna Paulouskaya](/assets/images/photos/paulouskaya.png)
Hanna Paulouskaya
Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw
Constellations of Gods in Soviet Animation
![Edoardo Pecchini](/assets/images/photos/pecchini.png)
Edoardo Pecchini
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Promoting Mental Health through Classics: Odysseus
![Ayelet Peer](/assets/images/photos/peer.png)
Ayelet Peer
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Heroic Beasts: On Humans-Animals Relations in Lucy Coats' "Beasts of Olympus" Series
![Amanda Potter](/assets/images/photos/potter.png)
Amanda Potter
Open University
Save the Monster, Save the World: Living in Harmony with 'Monsters' in "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"(1984) and '"Princess Mononoke" (1997)
![Marta Pszczolińska](/assets/images/photos/pszczolinska.png)
Marta Pszczolińska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Domestic Animals: Minimus the Mouse and Vibrissa the Cat as a Latin Learning Supporting Team in "Minimus. Starting out in Latin" Textbook
![Babette Puetz](/assets/images/photos/puetz.png)
Babette Puetz
School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
"No matter how dark the night, the sun always rises": The AD 79 Vesuvius Eruption in Contemporary Children's Literature
![Miriam Riverlea](/assets/images/photos/riverlea.png)
Miriam Riverlea
Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education, University of New England
Bushfire, Myths and Mallacoota
![Deborah H. Roberts](/assets/images/photos/roberts.png)
Deborah H. Roberts
Department of Classics, Haverford College
Natural Disaster, Social Change: Volcanic Eruptions in Children’s Literature and the Story of Thera
![Krzysztof Rybak](/assets/images/photos/rybak.png)
Krzysztof Rybak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Serving Ancient Nature in Informational Picturebooks: Natural Products and Their Consumption in Antiquity and Beyond
![Sonja Schreiner](/assets/images/present/people/schreiner.png)
Sonja Schreiner
Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies, University of Vienna
Witty Education: Environment, Landscape, and Nature as Atmospheric Background and Stage Setting in Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariä's (1726–1777) Mock-Heroic Poetry
![Michael Stierstorfer](/assets/images/photos/stierstorfer.png)
Michael Stierstorfer
Gymnasium Kloster Schäftlarn
The Reception of Atlantis in Current Children's Media as an (Un-)Natural Island
![Robert A. Sucharski](/assets/images/photos/sucharski.png)
Robert A. Sucharski
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Halina Rudnicka and Her Ancient Trilogy or on the Nature of the True Hero(ine)s
![Karoline Thaidigsmann](/assets/images/photos/thaidigsmann.png)
Karoline Thaidigsmann
Slavic Department, University of Heidelbeg
From Questions of Cultural Identity to the Challenges of a Globalized World. Crosswriting in Polish Literature since 1989 (A Résumé About Crossover Literature as a Means of Communicating with an Adult Readership)
![Katerina Volioti](/assets/images/photos/volioti.png)
Katerina Volioti
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton
katerina.volioti@roehampton...
A Post-humanist Perspective: Plants, Animals, and Things in Children’s Books about the Classical Past