Welcome to Antigone, a site that seeks to make Classics open to all, whatever your knowledge and interests, whoever and wherever you are. We hope you enjoy exploring some 350 articles about all aspects of the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds!
our Latest ARTICLEs:
Witches and the “Weaker Sex”
JOHN GODWIN Female powerplay in Latin poetry
Beyond the Teutoburg: The Life of Publius Quinctilius Varus
JO BALL Varus, before it all went wrong
Circe, Odysseus and the Disclosure of Hermes
STEPHEN PIMENTEL Circe the shaman?
Cornelia: A ‘Good’ Roman Woman?
ATHINA MITROPOULOS More than Mater Gracchorum
Greek Intellectual Life under the Roman Empire
CHARLES FREEMAN Did Roman rule suppress Greek genius?
How Would Virgil Speak in Chinese?
WENTAO ZHAI The Aeneid in Chinese poetry
How to Get a Job in Classical Athens: A Time-traveller’s Guide
EDMUND STEWART Finding work in the ancient metropolis
Seneca’s Sinister Groves
KELLY ZACH Oedipus and Druidic dread
When Greece and Egypt Collide: Hellenic Hymnic Papyri
MARC-THILO GLOWACKI The catalysis of cultural conflux
Interview with a Gladiatrix
CAROLINE LAWRENCE Talks to a Roman reenactment legend
Maciste the Magnificent
ART POMEROY The Classics in classic films
The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win?
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What animal inspires the good life?
Off-beat Poetry: Rhythmic Games in Horace, Homer and Vergil
NICHOLAS STONE How to end a line in style
The Last of the Greek Aoidoi: Jan Křesadlo’s Astronautilia
BEN BROADBENT A sci-fi epic in Homeric Greek
Tragedy Beyond the Battlefield: Grief in Homer’s Iliad and WWI Poetry
SAFA MALIK Uniting female grief in Troy and Troyes
High-Street Classics: Competition Winners
HOW DO WE CREATE BEAUTY On streets that do not seek it?
The Abu Simbel Graffito: Carian Puzzle or Risky Pun?
ARMAND D’ANGOUR A Greek riddle on a pharaoh’s leg
Between Pandemic and Democracy: What Antigone Can Teach Us
MAGDA ROMANSKA Ancient and modern civic struggles
The Omega Book Prize
A NEW LITERARY PRIZE Of Olympian stature
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
JUSTIN STOVER & GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN Hunt one of the great lost books
How Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon and Took Ariminum
ROBIN ALINGTON MAGUIRE On the choice that changed everything
Freud Meets Homer
MARK ADAIR Odysseus’ Freudian hallucinations
Who First Realised the Earth was Round?
JAMES HANNAM A world-changing discovery in Greece
The Eye of the Bat: Truth in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
JONATHAN M. WRIGHT In search of ultimate truth
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