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
Steering with Sophocles
THERESA RYDER Stumbling upon Classics after school
Middle-Earth Songs: 50 Years After Tolkien
ANCIENT POEMS Of, and on, J.R.R. Tolkien
High-Street Classics: The 8th Antigone Competition
WHAT CAN CLASSICS DO To make our shops more beautiful?
Catullus, Periods 1 and 2
GAVIN McCORMICK Ancient poetry, modern readers
War, Imperialism, and Democracy: Thucydides’ Ukrainian War
MAREK WĘCOWSKI What can we learn from the Peloponnesian War?
Iter Romanum: A Roman Journey – in Britain
PETER HULSE Exploring Corners of Roman Britain
The Fasces: Ancient Rome’s Most Dangerous Political Symbol
T.C. BRENNAN Rods, axes, and untrammelled power
Stoicism in the Fourth Satire of Persius
KATERINA KOURTOGLOU Socrates and Alcibiades discuss the big questions
Robert Southey and Rhyming Greek Grammar
CHARLOTTE MAY A Lake Poet curioso
Antigone’s Most-Read Articles
AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!
Why Translate Seneca?
An exchange between DANA GIOIA and MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI
Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day
BIJAN OMRANI Visits the Oxford Ancient Languages Society.
Mickiewicz in Greek and Latin
JERZY DANIELEWICZ & MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Putting the Polish Goethe in Classical dress.
Ancient History is Happening Now: Jacek Bocheński and his Roman Trilogy
KATARZYNA MARCINIAK Celebrating a Classical trilogy.
Victualling a Trireme: A Taste of Experimental Archaeology
R.A. MAGUIRE Did the Athenians Take the Biscuit?
What Can We Learn from Seneca Today?
DAVID FIDELER and CRISTIAN PĂTRĂȘCONI How Stoicism still speaks to us.
Homeric Hallucinations: Can AI Write Classics Essays?
CHARLES BAKER Is ChatGPT all bluff and bluster?
The Politics of Punctuation: Changing History One Mark at a Time
FLORENCE HAZRAT Who decides how a sentence flows?
A Poetic Jewel from Late Antiquity: Prudentius’ Psychomachia
PETER HULSE An epic battle of the soul.
What Did Palaeo-European Peoples Write? Local Languages of the Western Mediterranean
GABRIELA DE TORD BASTERA Uncovering long-lost languages.
Barbarism and its Discontents in Ancient and Modern Ukraine
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Are barbarians in the eyes of the beholder?
The Italian Job: Lucretius in the Renaissance
LUKE SLATTERY Did Lucretius really make the modern world?
Coronation Verses: Vivat Carolus Rex
LATIN POEMS To mark a new King.
The Joys and Perils of Keeping a Latin Diary
LEE LANZILLOTTA Talking to yourself in Latin helps!
“No Pharaoh’s Daughter is Ever Given to Anyone”: Why Did Amasis Refuse Cambyses?
NICKY NIELSEN On the complexities of Egyptian marriage.
Joining the Dots: A Musical Puzzle on an Ancient Vase
ARMAND D’ANGOUR What did this Greek painter mean?
The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World
GISELLE ACOSTA Have attitudes to ink changed over millennia?
What Cicero Should Have Done: The Catilinarian Conspiracy Revisited
R. A. MAGUIRE Could Cicero have avoided exile?
What Did Aspasia Really Look Like?
FRANCES FORBES-CARBINES Portraying Pericles’ partner.
Julius Caesar’s Last Words
J.S. UBHI Beware the Ides of March
Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part II)
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why burn Greek and Latin down?
Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part I)
WOLFGANG DE MELO On the value of translation.
Biennium Beantium: Two Years of Antigone
WE ARE HAVING Plenty of fun.
Commodus: Rome’s Problem Child?
DAN BILLINGHAM Finding the man behind the myth.
Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s ‘Meghnadbadh Kabya’.
The Ancient Boundaries of Classics
DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The rich interaction between Greece and Thrace.
Classical Culture in British India, Part II: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet and Classicist
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The poet who brought Latin and Greek into Bengali literature.
Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.
What Colour are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL On verbal polychromy.
Classical Culture in British India, Part I: The Bengal ‘Renaissance’
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI How Latin and Greek came to influence poetry in Calcutta.
Helena, Julian and Attila: The Twilight of Rome in 20th-century Fiction
EDMUND RACHER Rome’s Recessional in the novels of Burgess, Waugh and Vidal.
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation: A Personal View
COME WATCH THE BBC at its most ambitious.
The Roman Army’s Trusty Vultures: The World’s First Banded Birds
ADRIENNE MAYOR When birds join the war effort.
Socrates Redux: Antigone Competition Winners
SOCRATES RETURNS To speak truth to power.
Uncancelling Tiberius
JOHN ROTH What made Augustus’ successor go so very wrong?
Socrates Redux: Runners-up in the 7th Antigone Competition
THE BRILLIANT NEAR-MISSES in our latest contest
Classically-themed Paintings, Courtesy of AI
GIOVANNI LIDO Artificial intelligence paints the ancients.
Tempora Mutantur: Two Decades as a Classics Librarian
CHARLOTTE GOODALL Change and continuity in Classics collections.
The Last Night of Troy: The Helen Episode in Aeneid 2
PETER HULSE Who would cut an epic episode?
On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the magic of Greek literature.
Never-ending Crisis: The History of the Socratic Problem
OTTO LINDERBORG Will the real Socrates please stand up?
The Power of Reason: Benedict XVI and the Classics
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI A Pope’s devotion to Latin and Greek.
How Lost Secrets of Greek Astronomy were Rediscovered
PETER J. WILLIAMS A palimpsest of wonders.
How to be an Aristotelian
JOHN SELLARS The most important human ever to have lived?
Two Greeks, Two Romans, and a Monsterdog: A Balloon Debate with ChatGPT
A TALE OF SKY-HIGH CHAOS As told by Artificial Intelligence
On Aging, On Friendship: Cicero’s De Senectute
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM Life lessons from Cicero.
The Value of Secondary-School Latin: A Student’s View
PATRICK HOMES What brings pleasure in the classroom?
Burning Sappho in Love and Song
ARMAND D’ANGOUR Piecing together Sappho’s most famous poem.
Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain
AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.
Socrates Redux: The 7th Antigone Competition
ANTIGONE COMPETITION Does Socrates Shock or Tease?
Objects of Worship: A Japanese Journey in Ancient Religion and Modern Experience
THIERRY RICHARDS Kanzo Uchimura and the message of St Paul.
Close Encounters of the Fishy Kind; or Oppian’s Maritime World
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The secret society of Ancient Greek fish.
The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda
ALAN BOWMAN The Romans of Britannia speak again.
Larkin in Latin
OXFORD POETS Put Philip Larkin in Classical dress.
Classics and Māori Culture in New Zealand: Sir Apirana Ngata
SIMON PERRIS Classical currents in New Zealand waters.
Sponsian: Another Lost Emperor
ALFRED DEAHL How (not) to mould a fake emperor.
The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250
DIVERS HANDS What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?
The Old School of Classics and the New
R.Y. TYRRELL An 1880s satire for 2020s Classics?
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part III
J.S. BOPARAI Why a modern novelist became Classical.
The Ends of History
MICHAEL BONNER The decline and fall of declinism?
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part II
J.S. BOPARAI Trinidad’s greatest novelist explores the ruins.
Theophrastus on the Philologist: The Lost Character Sketch
?THEOPHRASTUS? An ancient anthropologist on the modern Classicist.
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part I
J.S. BOPARAI On a Classic Novelist’s Classical Education in Trinidad.
Civil Disobedience: A Puzzle in Plato’s Crito
ED LAMB How Socrates inspired Martin Luther King Jr.
How to Argue with Ted Turner’s Dad
GAVIN McCORMICK Why bother studying Classics?
Ad Fontes: When in Roman…
ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE Why does text look like it does?
The Newcastle Scholarship
ETON CLASSICS Testing times.
Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole
JOHN ROTH What can we learn from Regulus?
A Tour of London’s Greek Temples
EDMUND STEWART Greek revival on the streets of London.
O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past
ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.
When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament
DECLAN McCARTHY What are the rules of divine translation?
Living Descendants of Mark Antony
THEODORE KOPALIANI Lifting a 2,000-year-old veil.
Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation
MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.
Was Apuleius a Witch?
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI When wandering scholars go rogue.
Divine Impossibilities: The Winners
ANTIGONE Announces the victors!
Vice versificata: Poetry in the Remaking
STEPHEN COOMBS What matters in verse translation?
Classical Christian Education and Classics: What’s in a Name?
JOSEY WRIGHT How can two traditions combine?
Domitian II – the Lost Roman Emperor
ALFRED DEAHL When coins make history.
Eating and Living in Ancient Rome
TOMASZ SAPOTA Getting your fill in Latin literature.
The War that Made the Roman Empire: An Interview with Barry Strauss
BARRY STRAUSS Revisiting the Battle of Actium.
Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact
CLARE CHANG Helios shines again on the screen.
The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin’s In Certamen Pilae
WILLIAM GOLDWIN Cricket 1700-style.
Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why do languages have weird forms?
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