Publications

Books, edited volumes, PhD thesis

1.Monographs

2. Edited volumes and journals

  • J. Klooster & E. Bracke (eds.). Under contract. Bestselling Muses and their Ideologies. Contemporary feminist retellings of Greek myths. Bloomsbury.
  • K. De Temmerman, N. D’Alconzo, C.R. Jackson, E. Bracke (eds.). Under contract. The Ancient Novel: Roads Less Travelled. Brill.
  • 2025. De andere kant van het verhaal? Vrouwen in de Griekse wereld [The other side of the story? Women in the Greek world]. Tetradio 33.
  • P. Rosenmeyer, O. Hodkinson & E. Bracke (eds.) 2013. Fragmented Narrative: The Narratology of the Letter and Epistolary Literature in Ancient Greek. Brill.

3. PhD thesis

  • 2010. Of metis and magic: the conceptual transformations of Circe and Medea in ancient Greek poetry. Maynooth University.

Journal articles

  • 2026. Zeus in The White House: Over klassieke mythen en moderne goden [Zeus in The White House: On classical myths and modern gods]. Tetradio, 34.
  • 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, 79(2), 49-54.
  • 2025. Een introductie tot [Theano]: Op zoek naar vrouwelijke stemmen in de Pythagoreïsche filosofie [An introduction to [Theano]: Female voices in Pythagorean philosophy]. Tetradio, 33, 73-99.
  • 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, 79(1), 24-30.
  • Vereeck, A., Bracke, E., De Herdt, K., Janse, M. 2024. Revered and reviled. An outline of the public debate regarding Classical language education. Journal of Classics Teaching, 25, 101-15.
  • 2024. Teaching Latin and ancient Greek in the 21st-century Primary School: Framing local approaches to international challenges. Journal of Classics Teaching, 25(49), 33-38.
  • 2021. ‘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.
  • 2020. 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.
  • 2019. 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.
  • 2019. Narrative manipulation of Medea and Metis in Hesiod’s Theogony. Ancient Narrative Supplement, 27, 13-32.
  • 2017. Developing access to Classics in Wales. Journal of Classics Teaching, 18(35), 74-75.
  • 2017. Klassieke talen in crisis?! Internationale perspectieven [Classical languages in crisis? International perspectives]. Kleio, 46(2), 87-96.
  • 2017. 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.
  • 2016. The role of university student teachers in increasing Widening Participation to Classics. Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 18(2), 111-29.
  • 2015. Bringing ancient languages into a modern classroom: Some reflections. Journal of Classics Teaching, 32, 35-39.
  • 2013. Literacy through Latin in South Wales: MFL approaches to Latin teaching. Journal of Classics Teaching, 28, 43-46.

Book chapters

  • Under contract. Persephone and the Beast: The construction of female power in Girl Fantasy Literature. In J. Klooster & E. Bracke (eds.) Bestselling Muses. Bloomsbury.
  • Bracke, E., K. De Herdt, N. Meunier, P. Pietquin, C. Vanhalme. 2025. Belgium. In J. Bulwer, S. Hunt (eds.), Classics Teaching in Schools Worldwide. Bloomsbury, 15-22.
  • 2022. 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.
  • 2019. 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.
  • 2018. 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

Reviews

  • 2020. Review of L. Gloyn (2019). Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture (Bloomsbury). Classical Review, 70(2), 521-23.
  • 2010. Review of W.H. Race (2008). Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica (Loeb Classical Library). Classical Review, 60(2), 607-8.
  • 2007. Review of B. Goward (2005). Aeschylus: Agamemnon (London). Classics Ireland, 14, 115-17.