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Category: Ancient Religion

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 STRÓŻYŃSKI A Pope's devotion to Latin and Greek.

Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain

Posted on 24th December 202224th December 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.

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 202230th September 2022 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 202216th June 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JAN KOZŁOWSKI 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

What’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 202119th October 2021 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 ‘Vitruvian Man’ 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 20217th April 2021 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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