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Category: Ancient Religion

The Laughter of Paschal Grace

Posted on 21st April 202521st April 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI The joy of Easter

The Wounded Surgeon: Socrates and Christ in T.S. Eliotโ€™ East Coker IV

Posted on 18th April 202519th April 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI The poetic meeting of two soul healers

Poetry from the Gods: The Mysterious Chaldaean Oracles

Posted on 7th February 20257th February 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ROBIN DOUGLAS Platonism like you've never seen it.

Rhodopis, the Courtesan Who Annoyed Sappho

Posted on 31st January 202527th February 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History

DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA In search of the real Rhodopis

From Soul to Soul: Voices from Antiquity

Posted on 23rd January 202526th January 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

DANUTA SHANZER On empathy and the ancients

Spring in Midwinter: Mozartโ€™s Et incarnatus est

Posted on 20th December 202420th December 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI How Mozart captures the Christmas spirit

On Not Keeping Our Mouth Shut: Plato and Father Popieล‚uszko

Posted on 3rd November 20243rd November 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI Defending Truth under Communism

The Old Gods Return: The Strange Story of Pagan Revivals

Posted on 11th October 20246th July 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, The Classical Tradition

ROBIN DOUGLAS How the Classical pagan tradition endures

Classics and Christians in theย 12th Century

Posted on 7th July 20247th July 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JAMIE COLLINGS Classics in the medieval age

Keeping the Latin Mass Alive

Posted on 6th July 20246th July 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

ANTIGONE On the Ancient Latin Mass

Analysing Centaurs, Nymphs, and Gods: Carl Jung and Friedrich Creuzer

Posted on 1st June 20242nd December 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JAKUB HANDSZU On what the Greeks did for Jung

The Unfamiliar Name: T.S. Eliot on Hercules and the Pentecost

Posted on 19th May 202419th May 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI On Sophocles, Seneca and Eliot

Plato the Prophet? The Crucified Just Man in the Republic and New Testament

Posted on 31st March 202431st March 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Philosophy

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI What does crucifixion mean?

Violins Singing in Latin: The Seven Last Words of Christ

Posted on 28th March 202428th March 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI From the Gospels to Haydn

To Stand in Heaven: the Prologue to John’s Gospel

Posted on 17th February 202417th February 2024 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Uncategorized

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI In the beginning was the Word

Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain

Posted on 24th December 202324th December 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.

When Greece and Egypt Collide: Hellenic Hymnic Papyri

Posted on 28th October 202317th December 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History

MARC-THILO GLOWACKI The catalysis of cultural conflux

Antigone’s Most-Read Articles

Posted on 2nd July 20232nd July 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics, The New Naso

AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!

A Poetic Jewel from Late Antiquity: Prudentiusโ€™ Psychomachia

Posted on 20th May 202320th May 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Latin Literature

PETER HULSE An epic battle of the soul.

The Ancient Boundaries of Classics

Posted on 4th March 20235th March 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture

DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The rich interaction between Greece and Thrace.

The Power of Reason: Benedict XVI and the Classics

Posted on 24th January 202330th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRร“ลปYลƒSKI A Pope's devotion to Latin and Greek.

Objects of Worship: A Japanese Journey in Ancient Religion and Modern Experience

Posted on 11th December 202220th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, The Classical Tradition

THIERRY RICHARDS Kanzo Uchimura and the message of St Paul.

When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament

Posted on 22nd October 20225th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

DECLAN McCARTHY What are the rules of divine translation?

Was Apuleius a Witch?

Posted on 15th October 202215th October 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Latin Literature

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI When wandering scholars go rogue.

What You Need to Build a Greek Temple

Posted on 8th September 20229th December 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture, Top 20

EDMUND STEWART How hard can it be? Answer: very.

What did Classics do to Christianity?

Posted on 23rd June 20227th August 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

SIMON GOLDHILL The constant collision of rival worldviews.

Tagged Christianity

Biblical Intertextuality: The Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant

Posted on 16th June 20223rd April 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JAN KOZลOWSKI Hidden threads in the Gospel of Luke

Tagged Intertextuality, The Bible

The Ecstasy and the Agony: Mania, Manhood and Misery in Catullus 63

Posted on 21st May 202221st May 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Latin Literature

ANNE HARDY The strangest poem in Latin literature?

Tagged Catullus, Euripides

Whatโ€™s in a Name? Invoking Aphrodite in Greek Tragedy

Posted on 30th November 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature

IMOGEN STEAD Who's afraid of the goddess of love?

Tagged Aphrodite, Tragedy

Manipulating Mythology in Ancient Athens

Posted on 11th November 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture

JEROME RUDDICK What stories did Athenians choose to tell themselves?

Tagged Athens, Myth

Mere Child’s Play? Comparing Greek Myth with Fairy Tale

Posted on 30th October 202130th October 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ATHINA MITROPOULOS Did Greek myth ever think of the children?

Tagged Myth

Egyptian Cats and Greek Curiosity

Posted on 21st October 202121st October 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History, Material Culture

ALEX TARBET When Herodotus and cats collide.

The Man who Translated the Bible into Latin

Posted on 19th October 202117th February 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The exciting business of being Jerome

Tagged Jerome, The Bible

Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation

Posted on 23rd September 202123rd September 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MIRIAM KAMIL Why is harming trees a human taboo?

Tagged Myth, Nature

To Heaven on a Chariot: The Incredible Story of Poppaea Sabina

Posted on 17th August 202113th January 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History

PAUL SCHUBERT A Greek poem, a Roman empress, and life among the gods.

Tagged Nero

One and Many: Mother Goddesses at the Ancient Black Sea

Posted on 22nd July 202123rd July 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture

DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The cross-cultural worship of the many-named Mother Goddess.

Tagged Religion

Jesus Christ: the โ€˜Vitruvian Manโ€™ on the Cross

Posted on 1st July 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

PABLO IRIZAR What connects depictions of Christ's crucifixion to the pre-Christian world?

Tagged Christianity

Big Gods Don’t Cry, Do They?

Posted on 7th April 202129th June 2025 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, Latin Language

LLEWELYN MORGAN How the teardrop explodes in Ovidian elegy.

Tagged Ovid

First Thoughts on the “New Naso”

Posted on 1st April 20216th October 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso

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The Greeks, Afghanistan, and the Buddha

Posted on 20th March 202118th April 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Material Culture, Philosophy

BIJAN OMRANI Piecing together Greek influence in the Asian kingdom of Bactria.

Tagged Afghanistan1 Comment

Retracing the Steps of the Eleusinian Procession: A Mortal Experience

Posted on 18th March 202128th March 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture

ATHINA MITROPOULOS Unravelling the Mysteries to make the silent speak.

Tagged Athens, Religion
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