The Conversation: Before Greek myths reached the multiplex, they were weapons of political satire

William Dent depicts Cerberus, the Hound of Hades – a three-headed dog symbolising gluttony – as composed of the heads of politicians Charles Fox, Lord North and Edmund Burke. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Accession Number B1981.25.1573 Callum Smith, Aberystwyth University Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has brought Homer’s epic tale back to […]