Personal / Website News
Call for Papers
The Call for Abstracts for my collection of essays on neo-medievalism is live. The CFP can be found here. This upcoming week is the final week this CFP will be open.
HP Lovecast Podcast
Our newest episode of the H. P. Lovecast Podcast will be going up later today. Yesterday our podcast host, Buzzsprout, was the target of DDoS attacks, so we really couldn’t access anything.
General Neo-Peplum News
Academic Talks
Dr. Jeremy J. Swist gave an online lecture earlier this week called “An Unholy Trinity: Antiquity, Heavy Metal, and White Supremacism.” That talk is now available on YouTube and can be streamed here.
Of supplemental interest, Dr. Swist gave another online lecture in 2019 called “By Spartan Law: Laconophilia in Heavy Metal Music” that is also on YouTube.
Depictions of the Trojan War
Tony Keen has a short article at his website called “Modern Adaptation of the Trojan War Tropes” where he muses on tropes found in modern day depictions of the Trojan War.
Biblical Pepla
Matt Page has updated his Bible Films Blog with a write up of Histoire de Judas (2015).