Publications

Books, edited volumes, PhD thesis

Monograph: Under contract. In the Footsteps of the Labyrinth: The Meaning of Myth in Uncertain Times. Routledge.
Monograph: April 2025. Leidraad door het labyrint: De macht van mythen in onzekere tijden. Academia Press.
Editor: April 2025. De andere kant van het verhaal? Vrouwen in de Griekse wereld. Tetradio
Co-editor: and J. Klooster. Forthcoming. Bestselling Muses. 21^st-century feminist retellings of Greek myths. Submitted to Bloomsbury.
Co-editor: K. De Temmerman, N. D’Alconzo, C.R. Jackson, E. Bracke (eds.). Under contract 2025. The Ancient Novel: Roads Less Travelled. Proceedings of ICAN VI.
Monograph: 2022. Classics at Primary School: A Tool for Social Justice.
Co-editor: 2013. P. Rosenmeyer, O. Hodkinson & E. Bracke (eds.). Fragmented Narrative: The Narratology of the Letter and Epistolary Literature in Ancient Greek. Brill.
PhD thesis: 2010. Of metis and magic: the conceptual transformations of Circe and Medea in ancient Greek poetry. Unpublished PhD thesis. Maynooth University.

Journal articles

June 2025. Klassieke talen en mythen in Belgisch Congo: een conversatiestarter. Deel 2 [Classical languages and myths in the Belgian Congo: a conversation starter, part 2]. Hermeneus.
April 2025. Een introductie tot [Theano]: Op zoek naar vrouwelijke stemmen in de Pythagoreïsche filosofie [An introduction to [Theano]: Female voices in Pythagorean philosophy]. Tetradio
March 2025. Klassieke talen en mythen in Belgisch Congo: een conversatiestarter. Deel 1 [Classical languages and myths in the Belgian Congo: a conversation starter, part 1]. Hermeneus.
Vereeck, A., Bracke, E., De Herdt, K., Janse, M. Revered and reviled. An outline of the public debate regarding Classical language education. Journal of Classics Teaching.
Teaching Latin and ancient Greek in the 21^st-century Primary School: Framing local approaches to international challenges. Journal of Classics Teaching, 25(49), 33-38.
‘Iedereen Latijn’ van theorie naar praktijk: een diversiteitstoolkit [‘Latin for all’ from theory to practice: a diversity teaching toolkit]. Didactica Classica Gandensia, 54, 49-74.
and Bradshaw, C. The impact of learning Latin on school pupils: A review of existing data. Language Learning Journal, 48(2), 226-36.
2020. De impact van Oudgriekse studie op kansarme leerlingen: Participatieverruiming in het lagere scholenproject Oude Grieken – Jong Helden [The impact of ancient Greek study on children with a low SES: widening participation in the primary school project Ancient Greeks – Young Heroes]. Lampas, 53, 90-103.
Klassieke talen en kansarmoede: een pilootproject Oudgrieks in het lager onderwijs [Classical languages and child poverty: an Ancient Greek pilot project at primary school]. Kleio, 48(4), 169-78.
Narrative manipulation of Medea and Metis in Hesiod’s Theogony. Ancient Narrative Supplement, 27, 13-32.
Developing access to Classics in Wales. Journal of Classics Teaching, 18(35), 74-75.
Klassieke talen in crisis?! Internationale perspectieven [Classical languages in crisis? International perspectives]. Kleio, 46(2), 87-96.
Naar een democratisering van klassieke talenonderwijs? Praktische voorbeelden van differentiatie en dekolonisatie uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk [Democratizing Classical languages? Practical examples of differentiation and decolonization from the UK]. Prora, 22(2), 16-22. Also translated into English by Euroclassica.
The role of university student teachers in increasing Widening Participation to Classics. Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 18(2), 111-29.
Bringing ancient languages into a modern classroom: Some reflections. Journal of Classics Teaching, 32, 35-39.
Literacy through Latin in South Wales: MFL approaches to Latin teaching. Journal of Classics Teaching, 28, 43-46.

Book chapters

Bracke, K. De Herdt, N. Meunier, P. Pietquin, C. Vanhalme. 2025. Belgium: A tale of two communities. In J. Bulwer, S. Hunt (eds.), Classics Teaching in Schools Worldwide. Bloomsbury.
Persephone and the Beast: The construction of female power in Girl Fantasy Literature. In Bestselling Muses.
Monsters op de basisschool: De impact van Oudgriekse mythen en taal op kansarme jongeren. In E. Huig, I. Kuin, M. Liebregts (eds.), De huid van Cleopatra: Etniciteit en diversiteit in oudheidsstudies. Hilversum, 231-39.
Between cunning and chaos: Metis. In C. Stray, M. Clarke, J. Katz (eds.). Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World’s Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek. Oxford, 226-242.
Latin in the Park: Catullus and conjugations in the sunshine. In A. Henderson-Holmes, S. Hunt, M. Musié (eds.) Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities. London, 187-204.

Policy documents

Select popularizing publications

Een wendbare held: de inktvis van Inky tot Oppianus [A flexible hero: the cuttlefish from Inky to Oppian]. Hic&Nunc.
Heksenjacht. Van Kamala Harris tot Medea. [Witch hunt from Kamala Harris to Medea]. Hic&Nunc.
Medus/za op de barricade: gebruik en misbruik van een Oudgrieks ‘monster’ [Medus/a on the barricade: Use and abuse of an ancient Greek monster]. Hic&Nunc.
Hoe om te gaan met overspelige mannen en ander huishoudkundig advies van Theano [How to deal with philandering men, and other housekeeping advice from Theano]. Hic&Nunc.
The Trumpan horse: modern politics meets ancient Greek literature, Argo, 16-17.
How the ancient world invoked the dead to help the living, The Conversation.
‘The Welsh Dragon’, Western Mail.

Reviews

Review of L. Gloyn (2019). Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture (Bloomsbury). Classical Review, 70(2), 521-23.
Review of W.H. Race (2008). Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica (Loeb Classical Library). Classical Review, 60(2), 607-8.
Review of B. Goward (2005). Aeschylus: Agamemnon (London). Classics Ireland, 14, 115-17.