Dunstan Lowe

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Classical Studies academic, gamer, enthusiast. Read around and find out

Baby monsters resembling Gremlins, hatching from a golden egg in an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Marisa’s stage in SF6 showing Spartan warriors in a Roman colosseum background.
Computer game cases spelling out the message.
Bizarrely mangled AI generated instructions on how to fry an egg, in nine illustrated panels.
Moebius’ painting of Theseus being led by Ariadne holding the thread past a Minoan-style labyrinth wall.
Image of the face of Kharon from Mk XI in red tones, bald-headed with a high-neck collar and square white beard. His red garment is organic-looking and resembles irregular glistening body-tissue. His eyes lack pupils and appear grey and glassy.
A Nathan W. Pyle cartoon in four panels. The adult alien instructs the child alien in playing a Mario game using literal paraphrases (“obtain the fungus”), because he has devoted much of his life to “studying this being’s lore”.
Promotional art showing Julius Caesar from the 2018 Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed Origins. He is staring downward sternly, wearing Roman military regalia with a historically inaccurate red cloak and a golden wreath.
Screenshot from the 2023 anime Pluto, showing a statue of King Darius IV of Persia (named in subtitle text) with upraised hand in the style of Saddam Hussein, viewed upward in front of Persian-style monumental buildings under a blue sky.
Stephen Collins cartoon about Odysseus getting told off by his dad about taking the wrong way home. It’s funnier the way he tells it, honest