Quick updates

A few updates on what I've been doing. I have a chapter in Andriana Domouzi & Silvio Bär's edited collection Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic, which was published in June (being an academic book, it is, of course, very expensive). My chapter is 'A Perfect Woman to Order: The Pygmalion Myth in Chris Beckett's The Holy Machine'. It's a shortened version of a piece I had published in French back in 2014 in Mélanie Bost-Fievet and Sandra Provini (eds.), L’Antiquité dans l’imaginaire contemporain, but I did thoroughly revise it for this appearance. I think this is probably going to be my only academic publication for 2024, but since 2023 went by without anything from me, I'm probably not doing too badly.

I had another review published on The Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide. It's of a French album called Asterios the Minotaur, so I'm doing reception of myth. I quite liked it.

I got mentioned in an interview Roz Kaveney did about her Catullus volume, which interview I hadn't been aware of before. My name came up because she acknowledged me in the book for a small amount of help I'd given in understanding the ancient context (I'm sure Nick Lowe did more).

Finally, I have a forthcoming chapter in Amanda Potter and Anise K. Strong's Classical Receptions and Impact of Xena: Warrior Princess. This doesn't come out until February, but you can already order it (again, it's not cheap). My chapter is on 'Xena and Britannia', and ties in with the work I've been doing for over a decade now on screen portrayals of Roman Britain. I'm actually very pleased with the final version of the text I submitted.