Home Lessons in Living with Humans: Ancient Correspondence & Hellhounds Handbook Just a Taste of Hemlock: A Final Look at Orestes

Just a Taste of Hemlock: A Final Look at Orestes

This is a picture of a piglet brushing its teeth:

pig brushing its teeth

Here’s a picture of Orestes being purified for the murder of his mother (and cousin) by being bathed in the blood of a baby pig:

orestes

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Megan Miller is a classicist with a bent toward the macabre. She received her master’s from Oxford, but now tells as many monster stories as she can to the students in her university courses. To read more Ancient Correspondence, click here.

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Megan Miller

SML's New Ancient Correspondent: Megan Miller is a classicist with a bent toward the macabre. She received her master's from Oxford, but now tells as many monster stories as she can to the students in her university courses. Stay tuned for more Ancient Correspondence, coming soon!

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