The Failures of Odysseus’ Heroic Leadership

Homer’s Odysseus and Ovid’s Perseus: a Comparison of Heroic Values

Cloning Odysseus and the seed of speciation.

D ispersal is a life-history trait that has profound consequences for populations. Viewed from an ecological perspective , dispersal influences the dynamics and persistence of populations, the distribution and abundance of species, and community structure. From an evolutionary perspective, dispersal determines the level of gene flow between populations and affects processes such as local adapta...

Hipponax and the Homeric Odysseus

Few will doubt that tracing Homer (and Homeric epos) on subsequent classical authors, in all its varied manifestations, has proved to be an enlightening critical enterprise. Indeed, it has become nearly impossible to consider the poetry of the so-called archaic lyric period without acknowledging at some level its relation to Homer and the epic tradition. It is a pity, therefore, that in this re...

Heroic Medicine

Nearly 60 years after he died, surgeons from around the world still honour the memory of Sir Robert Jones, the father of modern British orthopaedics. Sir Robert lived and worked at a time when crippled children were a common sight on Britain's streets, and one of his greatest achievements was to show that many of these children-the victims chiefly of tuberculosis, rickets, and poliomyelitis-cou...

The First Heroic Decade of Microlensing

We describe the fundamentals of vanilla and exotic microlens-ing. Deviations from the standard form of an achromatic, time-symmetric lightcurve can be caused by the parallax and xallarap effects, finite source sized effects and binarity. Three applications of microlensing from the First Heroic Decade are reviewed in detail – namely (i) searches for compact dark objects in the Galactic halo, (ii...