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On The Living Language of the Greeks

Posted on 15th November 202516th November 2025 by Antigone in Greek Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

J.S. BLACKIE Classicists should *speak* Greek

The Living Languages: Why Cambridge Needs Greek

Posted on 11th May 202512th May 2025 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

J.K. STEPHEN How to stop Greek becoming a dead language

Mirror Reflection, Axes of Coordinates, and Homeric Grammar

Posted on 8th April 20258th April 2025 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature

PIOTR STฤ˜PIEลƒ Getting in the heads of Homer's heroes

The Winchester Greek List

Posted on 2nd March 202512th June 2025 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature

AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE For learning more Greek!

Singular Adventures in Plurality

Posted on 25th October 202425th October 2024 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language

NICHOLAS SWIFT On Greek and Latin number

Beyond LSJ: How to Deepen Your Understanding of Ancient Greek

Posted on 9th April 20249th April 2024 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature

HARRY TANNER Escapes the confines of the lexicon

A Greek Grammar in Armenian

Posted on 18th February 202419th February 2024 by Antigone in Greek Language, The Classical Tradition

ROBIN MEYER What could possibly go wrong?

Cracking the Code of Linear B

Posted on 18th January 202420th January 2024 by Antigone in Greek Language, Material Culture

THEODORE NASH A heroic tale of decipherment

The Abu Simbel Graffito: Carian Puzzle or Risky Pun?

Posted on 30th September 20233rd October 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Material Culture

ARMAND D'ANGOUR A Greek riddle on a pharaoh's leg

Robert Southey and Rhyming Greek Grammar

Posted on 8th July 202323rd September 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, The Classical Tradition

CHARLOTTE MAY A Lake Poet curioso

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!

Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day

Posted on 22nd June 202312th November 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

BIJAN OMRANI Visits the Oxford Ancient Languages Society.

Julius Caesar’s Last Words

Posted on 15th March 202321st March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature

J.S. UBHI Beware the Ides of March

Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part II)

Posted on 11th March 202311th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Future of Classics

WOLFGANG DE MELO Why burn Greek and Latin down?

Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part I)

Posted on 11th March 202311th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Future of Classics

WOLFGANG DE MELO On the value of translation.

On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)

Posted on 29th January 20235th February 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

VIRGINIA WOOLF On the magic of Greek literature.

O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past

Posted on 23rd October 202224th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.

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?

Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem

Posted on 23rd September 202211th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO Why do languages have weird forms?

Learning Foreign Languages in Antiquity: How Did They Do It?

Posted on 19th July 202220th July 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Latin Language

ELEANOR DICKEY Multilingual learning before Duolingo.

Tagged Language learning

Homer’s Scythian Readers

Posted on 14th May 202214th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

J.S. UBHI How did myths tour the ancient world?

Tagged Comparative Linguistics, Homer, Scythia

Why Compare Greek and Latin?

Posted on 7th April 202230th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, Latin Literature

JOSHUA T. KATZ The first line of Latin literature has some answers.

Tagged Comparative Linguistics, Livius Andronicus

Socially Awkward Data: Studying Ancient Sociolinguistics

Posted on 22nd March 202222nd March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Latin Language

ROBIN MEYER By Pollux, curse these particles!

Tagged Linguistics

Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English and Greek

Posted on 26th October 20214th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

A.E. HOUSMAN / D.S. RAVEN Forging a Greek tragedy from English comedy.

Tagged Housman, Verse composition

Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologistโ€™s Take

Posted on 12th October 202123rd February 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, Top 20

WOLFGANG DE MELO How did the Romans handle gender?

Tagged Gender, Linguistics

Ancient Cybersecurity II: Cracking the Caesar Cipher

Posted on 16th September 202116th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Latin Language

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did Rome's most famous citizen advance encryption?

Tagged Codes

Reflections on Life at the Word-face of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon

Posted on 19th August 202119th August 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language

SIMON WESTRIPP Answers from an editor of the new Ancient Greek lexicon .

Tagged Lexicography

What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?

Posted on 3rd July 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

NICHOLAS SWIFT Can we really hear the ancients speak?

Tagged Linguistics

Ancient Greek Accents in Ten Rules

Posted on 5th June 202118th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Top 20

GREEK ACCENTS Really aren't so complex.

Tagged Greek accents

An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre

Posted on 21st May 20212nd July 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Top 20

DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.

Tagged Metre

“My Inquisitive Girlish Gaze”: How Women Speak in Greek Drama

Posted on 1st May 202113th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History

IMOGEN STEAD How can we find 'real' female speech in all-male drama?

Tagged Aristophanes, Comedy, Euripides, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Tragedy1 Comment

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

1 Comment

The Music of Sophoclesโ€™ Ode to Man

Posted on 22nd March 202129th March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, Material Culture

ARMAND D'ANGOUR Resurrecting the sound of Greek choral song.

Tagged Music, Sophocles

Words from the Ghosts: Awakening Indo-European Philology

Posted on 16th March 202129th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

J. S. UBHI How a language spoken long before the Greeks and Romans can help us speak to them.

Tagged Comparative Linguistics1 Comment
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