How Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon and took Ariminum: Part II
ROBIN ALINGTON MAGUIRE Revisits this definitive moment
Epigram Trifariam: The 13th Antigone Competition
THREE SHORT POEMS On Classic themes
Caesar in the Kremlin: Vladimir Putinโs Speeches in Latin
MICHAEL FONTAINE Latin of the New Empire
When Democracy Dies: the Fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BC
MORGAN KIM Is Augustus in the wings?
The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology
A NEW PRIZE For new scholarship.
The Afterwards of Justice: Hesiod, the Greeks, and Moon Knight
JOHAN TRALAU Punishment will always arrive.
The Fall of Smaug and the Heel of Achilles
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Epic echoes in The Hobbit
The Apostate in Antioch: Emperor Julianโs Civic Strife
MICHAEL FIRTH Urban discord in 4th-century Syria
On The Living Language of the Greeks
J.S. BLACKIE Classicists should *speak* Greek
Romeโs Greatest Soldier? Spurius Ligustinus and the Roman Army in the Middle Republic
CONNOR BEATTIE Reconstructs a Roman military hero
In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice
CODY BARNHART Bring back broad knowledge
A Walk with Horace
GAVIN McCORMICK Poet and Pest in Satire 1.9
The Decline and Fall of Classical Rhetoric
JOSH ALLAN A eulogy for the art of rhetoric
Whatโs the Point of Life? Aristotle and the New Academic Year
EDMUND STEWART Find joy and fight for it
Atomic Physics, Ancient and Modern
SHIKHAR MISRA Lucretius the quantum physicist
Centenary Elegiacs for the Society of Hellenic Studies
E.J. KENNEY & PAUL McKENNA A new commentary on modern Latin verses
Homer among the Villagers: Christian Verse Inscriptions from the Anatolian Steppe
KRYSTYNA BARTOL On epic epigraphy
Homeric Allusions in J.R.R. Tolkienโs Hobbit
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Epic elements in Middle Earth
An Exceedingly Short Introduction to Roman Law
NICHOLAS STONE What the Romans did for us
Classical Scholarship: A Roving Commissionย
CAMPBELL BONNER On the power of intellectual curiosity
New Latin Verse, Please: Reviving Vates
DAVID MONEY Floreant poetae!
Fatherly Virtue in The Roman and American Republic
TOM JONES The piety of a killer’s father
An Apology for Philology
SOLVEIG GOLD & JOSHUA KATZ Philologists who love language
John Buchan at 150, in Latin
NICHOLAS STONE Making Buchan Roman
O Tempora: Winners of the 12th Antigone Competition
URGENT QUESTIONS Ancient answers
Are Those Marble Wigs? On Roman Hairstyles
J.S. BOPARAI Portraits of Matrons with Big Hair
The Rise of Herod the Great
BARRY STRAUSS From Persia’s clutches to Rome’s Embrace
My Road Trip to Meet Zeus: The Siwa Oasis and the Oracle of Ammon
GEOFFREY C. BENSON In search of wisdom in the Egyptian desert
Asquith on the Classics
H.H. ASQUITH A PM reflects on Classical scholarship
The Mystery of the Portonaccio Sarcophagus
A ROMAN BURIAL CHAMBER With a story to tell
More Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek Poems
SOME MORE POEMS By Philhellenes and Phillatines
Shadowed Lands: The Greek Periphery in the Fiction of Mitchison and Lewis
EDMUND RACHER The Hellenic fringe in 20th-century literature
Lucretius and the Religion of Materialism
HENRYK ELZENBERG Did Lucretius worship Nature?
The House Always Wins: Boethius, Cicero and the Gamble of Fate
MATTHEW GLUCKMAN Who calls the shots in our universe?
O Tempora: The 12th Antigone Competition
TELL US WHAT The Romans would say!
Flickering Light in Romeโs ‘Little Dark Age’: Towards a Literature of the 3rd Century
FLETCHER ERSKINE On an era that needs revisiting
On Staging a New Medea โ and its Sequel
NICK THOMAS Resurrects Medea and Family
Odysseus, Trauma and Identity in Homer and Pasoliniโs The Return
JAN PARKER The challenge of the nostos
Horace Odes 3.30 โExegi Monumentumโ: Wycombe Translation Initiative 2025
WYCOMBE RENDERERS Turn Horace four ways twice
What Would Aeneas Do? Heroic Ideals in Homer, Virgil and Sun Wukong
PATRICK LIU In search of ancient heroism
The Living Languages: Why Cambridge Needs Greek
J.K. STEPHEN How to stop Greek becoming a dead language
All the Small Things: Epicureanism, Then and Now
SPENCER KLAVAN What really matters in the world?
Roman Restraint: Foreign Policy from Augustus to Tiberius
SCOTT STRGACICH Holding on to Augustan success
Travels through Anatolia
PETER HULSE Greeks, Romans, Sufis and subterranean settlements
The Laughter of Paschal Grace
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI The joy of Easter
The Wounded Surgeon: Socrates and Christ in T.S. Eliotโ East Coker IV
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI The poetic meeting of two soul healers
The Cranes of Ibycus: Schiller, Ibycus and Divine Justice
DAVID GOSSELIN Breathing new life into an ancient poet
Mirror Reflection, Axes of Coordinates, and Homeric Grammar
PIOTR STฤPIEล Getting in the heads of Homer’s heroes
A Musical journey in Classical Myth: from Straussโs Electra to Lisztโs Orpheus
JONATHAN KINGSTON Greek myth in classical strains
The Consolation of the Classics: War, Homecoming, and Memory
BRADLEY BRINCKA How ancient literature comforts veterans
Setting Euripides to Music
NICHOLAS ROMANOS On reviving ancient tragic music
Making Sense of Euripidesโ Orestes
NICHOLAS ROMANOS On a Greek tragedy ahead of its time
Recreating Euripidesโ Orestes
NICHOLAS ROMANOS On an Oxford Ancient Languages Society production
Gladiators, Single Combat and Educating the Youth in Republican Rome
CONNOR BEATTIE Why Romans fought for sport
Antigone’s 4th Birthday
ANOTHER YEAR GONE Another year beckons!
Where are the Women in Plato’s Symposium?
ARMAND D’ANGOUR Talking about talking about love
The Winchester Greek List
AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE For learning more Greek!
Shield of Dreams: Winners of the 11th Antigone Competition
WHAT WONDERS Did our winners work?
Where on Earth Have You Seen That?! Aulus Gellius on The Aeneid
SAGA HERDESKOELD When scholars squabble over Classics
Robert Frostโs โThe Road Not Takenโ in Greek
JERZY DANIELEWICZ Hellenises an American hero
Unveiling Strength: An Exhibition on Womenโs Physicality in Ancient Greece
JAKUB JASIลSKI Greek female sport long ago
The First Universities? Ancient Greek Philosophical Schools
EDMUND STEWART When was the university born?
Poetry from the Gods: The Mysterious Chaldaean Oracles
ROBIN DOUGLAS Platonism like you’ve never seen it.
Rhodopis, the Courtesan Who Annoyed Sappho
DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA In search of the real Rhodopis
How to Live Metaphysics? Plotinus on Contemplation
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Learning to think with Plotinus
From Soul to Soul: Voices from Antiquity
DANUTA SHANZER On empathy and the ancients
The Practical Case for Studying Latin
JOSH ALLAN On the use of usefulness
LatinGate: A Teacher’s Lament
J.S. UBHI On a current British scandal
Shield of Dreams: the 11th Antigone Competition
TRY YOUR HAND At our winter competition
Spring in Midwinter: Mozartโs Et incarnatus est
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI How Mozart captures the Christmas spirit
Spending a Day with Philoctetes: Dio Judges the Great Tragedians
CAREY JOBE Reads tragedy with Dio Chrysostom
Claudian’s Battle of the Giants
PAUL MCKENNA Grapples with the Greek Gigantomachia
Antigone and the Pharos Foundation
ANTIGONE Finds a New Friend
Valerius Flaccusโ Best Ecphrasis
RICHARD RUTHERFORD Depicting the disaster of Jason and Medea
Oration on Quintilian and Statius’ Silvae
POLITIAN On Silver Latin’s virtues
Why Read Lesser Writers? Politian on Silver Latin Literature
J.S. BOPARAI On a rousing Renaissance lecture
Opposite Day in Ancient Rome
JOEL MOORE Topsy-turvy times together
Machines or Mind? The Essay that Launched the Loebs
W.H.D. ROUSE On why the Classics matter
On Not Keeping Our Mouth Shut: Plato and Father Popieลuszko
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Defending Truth under Communism
When Venus Returns: Horatian Echoes in Hjalmar Sรถderbergโs The Serious Game
MARTINA BJรRK Finds Lydia rediviva
Conquering Sign: Staging Constantine
EDMUND RACHER On the emperor in mass media
Sappho’s Inner Monologue
THOMAS A. MONTGOMERY On two beguiling lyric poems
Singular Adventures in Plurality
NICHOLAS SWIFT On Greek and Latin number
A.E. Housman’s Introductory Lecture, 1892
A.E. HOUSMAN Sets the Victorians straight
The Old Gods Return: The Strange Story of Pagan Revivals
ROBIN DOUGLAS How the Classical pagan tradition endures
Ancient Artillery
R.A. MAGUIRE On Greco-Roman catapults
When Did the Roman Empire Fall?
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Chronicle of a death foretold
I Sing Of What I Love: The Winners
THE BRILLIANT WINNERS Of our summer poetry contest
I Sing of What I Love: Runners-Up
A POETIC COLLECTION Of the nearest misses
I Sing of What I Love: The 10th Antigone Competition
ANTIGONE ASKS YOU To write from the heart
The Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Mantegna and the Classical Spirit
J.S. BOPARAI On one of the greatest artistic ventures
When a Blind Man Cries: Oedipusโ Revenge in Statiusโ Thebaid
DAMIAN DOMKE Oedipus in his darkest hour
Classics and Christians in theย 12th Century
JAMIE COLLINGS Classics in the medieval age
Keeping the Latin Mass Alive
ANTIGONE On the Ancient Latin Mass
What the UK General Election Could Mean for Classics Educationย
GARY F. FISHER How the Classical ecosystem may change
Lucretius revisited: Ancient Wisdom in the AI Age
MATTHEW GLUCKMAN On an Epicurean warning
Roamin’ Algeria
THE BROTHERS FONTAINE Visit undervisited Roman ruins
Connecting Ancients and Moderns: An Interview with Livio Zerbini
LIVIO ZERBINI On Epigraphy at the Roman(ian) Frontier
Virgil in Sarmatia: Latin Epic in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
FRANCIS YOUNG Early-Modern Latin in Eastern Europe
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