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Category: Greek Literature
The Fall of Smaug and the Heel of Achilles
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Epic echoes in The Hobbit
In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice
CODY BARNHART Bring back broad knowledge
The Decline and Fall of Classical Rhetoric
JOSH ALLAN A eulogy for the art of rhetoric
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
Classical Scholarship: A Roving Commissionย
CAMPBELL BONNER On the power of intellectual curiosity
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
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
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
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
Travels through Anatolia
PETER HULSE Greeks, Romans, Sufis and subterranean settlements
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
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!
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
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
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
Valerius Flaccusโ Best Ecphrasis
RICHARD RUTHERFORD Depicting the disaster of Jason and Medea
Machines or Mind? The Essay that Launched the Loebs
W.H.D. ROUSE On why the Classics matter
Sappho’s Inner Monologue
THOMAS A. MONTGOMERY On two beguiling lyric poems
Analysing Centaurs, Nymphs, and Gods: Carl Jung and Friedrich Creuzer
JAKUB HANDSZU On what the Greeks did for Jung
The Unfamiliar Name: T.S. Eliot on Hercules and the Pentecost
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI On Sophocles, Seneca and Eliot
Agesilaus: The Greatest of the Spartans?
EDMUND STEWART On one man's life-long mission
The Crab: Facing Cancer in Greco-Roman Antiquity
KONSTANTINE PANEGYRES On a ubiquitous disease
The Mysterious Demetrios Moschos: Renaissance Scribe, Poet, Scholar
PETER HULSE Goes in search of a Spartan humanist
Latitudinous Homeric Alliteration
JEFFREY M. DUBAN Verbal artistry in the prince of poets
Seeing the Invisible: The Experience of Subordinates in Ancient Greece
SAMUEL GARTLAND & DAVID TANDY On life below the Greek elite
This Is How We Become Godlike: Marcus Aurelius and His Monuments
JUDITH STOVE On an imperial enigma
Epic Echoes in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
ISABELLA REDMAYNE On a poetic reimagination of Homer
Why We Need the Tragic: Schiller, Cassandra and the Rebirth of Tragedy
DAVID GOSSELIN Offers a new translation of Cassandra
Beyond LSJ: How to Deepen Your Understanding of Ancient Greek
HARRY TANNER Escapes the confines of the lexicon
How Not to Comment on the Classics
PRACTICAL CRITICISM Impractically done
Homer in the Byzantine Classroom: Eustathios of Thessaloniki and John Tzetzes
BAUKJE VAN DEN BERG Reading Homer in Constantinople
Stasis: Conflict, Revolution, and Compromise in the Greek Polis
MAREK WฤCOWSKI How to handle political dissent?
Aeschylusโ Prometheus Unbound: Rebuilding a Lost Masterpiece
CAREY JOBE On a great, but vanished, tragedy
Banish the Big Liars: Epicurus on True Pleasure
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The distorting mirror of ancient critics
My Long Strange Trip to Aristophanesโ Gerytades
A.M. JUSTER Restores a long-lost comedy
Long Live the Snake: Cleopatraโs Poison
LORENZO SENECI Venomous herpetology in the ancient world
Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain
AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.
Bringing Dionysus to Life: A Story of Revelry and Outcasts
EMILY WENDT On translating Euripides Bacchae
Classicism in the Romantic Era II: Chateaubriand, the Romantic Classicist
J.S. BOPARAI Why read Chateaubriand?
Classicism in the Romantic Era I: Was Stendhal Right about the Classical Tradition?
J.S. BOPARAI How to define a 'classic'
Witches and the “Weaker Sex”
JOHN GODWIN Female powerplay in Latin poetry
Circe, Odysseus and the Disclosure of Hermes
STEPHEN PIMENTEL Circe the shaman?
Cornelia: A โGoodโ Roman Woman?
ATHINA MITROPOULOS More than Mater Gracchorum
Greek Intellectual Life under the Roman Empire
CHARLES FREEMAN Did Roman rule suppress Greek genius?
When Greece and Egypt Collide: Hellenic Hymnic Papyri
MARC-THILO GLOWACKI The catalysis of cultural conflux
The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win?
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What animal inspires the good life?
Off-beat Poetry: Rhythmic Games in Horace, Homer and Vergil
NICHOLAS STONE How to end a line in style
The Last of the Greek Aoidoi: Jan Kลesadloโs Astronautilia
BEN BROADBENT A sci-fi epic in Homeric Greek
Tragedy Beyond the Battlefield: Grief in Homerโs Iliad and WWI Poetry
SAFA MALIK Uniting female grief in Troy and Troyes
Between Pandemic and Democracy: What Antigone Can Teach Us
MAGDA ROMANSKA Ancient and modern civic struggles
Freud Meets Homer
MARK ADAIR Odysseus' Freudian hallucinations
The Eye of the Bat: Truth in Aristotleโs Metaphysics
JONATHAN M. WRIGHT In search of ultimate truth
Steering with Sophocles
THERESA RYDER Stumbling upon Classics after school
War, Imperialism, and Democracy: Thucydidesโ Ukrainian War
MAREK WฤCOWSKI What can we learn from the Peloponnesian War?
Antigone’s Most-Read Articles
AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!
Mickiewicz in Greek and Latin
JERZY DANIELEWICZ & MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Putting the Polish Goethe in Classical dress.
Victualling a Trireme: A Taste of Experimental Archaeology
R.A. MAGUIRE Did the Athenians Take the Biscuit?
Homeric Hallucinations: Can AI Write Classics Essays?
CHARLES BAKER Is ChatGPT all bluff and bluster?
โNo Pharaoh’s Daughter is Ever Given to Anyoneโ: 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?
Julius Caesar’s Last Words
J.S. UBHI Beware the Ides of March
Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt's 'Meghnadbadh Kabya'.
What Colour are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL On verbal polychromy.
On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the magic of Greek literature.
How Lost Secrets of Greek Astronomy were Rediscovered
PETER J. WILLIAMS A palimpsest of wonders.
Burning Sappho in Love and Song
ARMAND D'ANGOUR Piecing together Sappho's most famous poem.
Close Encounters of the Fishy Kind; or Oppianโs Maritime World
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The secret society of Ancient Greek fish.
The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250
DIVERS HANDS What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?
Theophrastus on the Philologist: The Lost Character Sketch
?THEOPHRASTUS? An ancient anthropologist on the modern Classicist.
O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past
ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.
Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact
CLARE CHANG Helios shines again on the screen.
Stop Talking: An Epigram of Palladas
E.J. HUTCHINSON Hot takes: an old, cold take.
Energy from Elegy: What Did the Greeks Use Elegiac Poetry for?
KRYSTYNA BARTOL Verse for all seasons.
What Sort of Thing is a Socrates?
ALEXANDRA BARO Philosophy is not a spectator sport.
Epic Potery: Drinking with the Ancients
DAVID BUTTERFIELD Go hard or go Homer.
One Thinks of Homer: Oliver St John Gogarty and James Joyce
TOM MORAN Joyce's epic conflict with a friend-turned-enemy.
โGrind never stopsโ, or The Life and Work of Isaac Casaubon
TOM KEELINE A window into the life of the hardest-working Classicist.
A Field Guide to Greek Metre
CARLO G. CARLUCCI The best book ever written.
Forms of Conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone: Part II
ELTON BARKER When Tragedy tears itself apart.
Forms of Conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone
ELTON BARKER When tragedy tears itself apart.
What did Classics do to Christianity?
SIMON GOLDHILL The constant collision of rival worldviews.
Biblical Intertextuality: The Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant
JAN KOZลOWSKI Hidden threads in the Gospel of Luke
Polybius of Megalopolis: History Isnโt Always Written by Victors
GEORGINA LONGLEY The trials of a captive historian.
Shakespeareโs Hamlet: The Oresteia and a Question of Matricide
FROMA ZEITLIN Greek Tragedy and the Prince of Denmark.
Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek
TOM MORAN A monumental misunderstanding of literature?
Homer’s Scythian Readers
J.S. UBHI How did myths tour the ancient world?
Rock Music
GREGORY HUTCHINSON Hitting the hard stuff in Classical literature.
To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Segal and Weil on how to live and love.
A Short History of Envy
DAVID KONSTAN What turned the Greeks and Romans green.
Scholiastic Triumphs: Insights from Ancient Iliadic Readers
CHARLIE BAKER How did ancient scholars explain the greatest Greek epic?
Lamia, Sirens, and Female Monsters: Feminist Reframings of Classical Myth in 19th-Century Literature
NINA TRIARIDOUโ New voices for ancient stories.
A Fantasy of Justice: Revenge and the Other in Greek Tragedy
JANEK KUCHARSKI What do legendary "barbarians" reveal about Ancient Greek beliefs?
Homer and the Power of Story-telling
KATHARINE RADICE How stories can empower their tellers as much as their listeners.
Ukraineโs Island of Heroes
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI How heroism on an island links the past and present.
Singing in the Shadow of Homer
JOE GOODKIN Reawakening the Iliad blues.
Covid and the Classics Competition Winners
OUR READERS Are ingenious folk.
Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted
ANDREW BEER The genuine pleasure of yielding to better arguments.
Vergil, Versailles and Us: the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Did 17th-century French art and literature outshine the Classics?
Herodotus, Pirate Amazons, and How to Write about the Past
CHRISTINE LEHNEN Scythian women did things their way.
The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkienโs Farmer Giles of Ham
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Classic wordplay from Classics-loving Tolkien.
Shake It Off, Solon: What Was the Seisachtheia?
STEVE O'SULLIVAN Exploring the mysteries of Solon's economic revolution.
Happy Eaters and Talkers, or The Great Idea of the Encyclopaedia
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The chance to be a fly on the wall at an ancient symposium.
Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class
DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?
Some Games in Greek and Latin
THE FUN of playing in the Classical tradition.
The Song of Seikilos: a Musically Notated Ancient Greek Poem
ARMAND D'ANGOUR How to make Euterpe dance.
Whatโs in a Name? Invoking Aphrodite in Greek Tragedy
IMOGEN STEAD Who's afraid of the goddess of love?
Oedipus on his Life’s Path
ELลปBIETA WESOลOWSKA What goes around comes around.
Alcibiades and the Pitfalls of Personality Politics
ALFRED DEAHL The chaotic career of Athens' most notorious playboy-politician.
Sophists and the Mistrust of Authority
SEYMOUR MAC MAHON The invincible power of independent thought.
Mere Child’s Play? Comparing Greek Myth with Fairy Tale
ATHINA MITROPOULOS Did Greek myth ever think of the children?
Sappho, the Shining Star
ANTON BIERL Illuminating the fragments of the world's most famous female poet.
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English and Greek
A.E. HOUSMAN / D.S. RAVEN Forging a Greek tragedy from English comedy.
Mary and Minerva: Symbolic Protest and the Destruction of Female Beauty
ENLLI LEWIS Does Medusa have a more positive tale to tell?
Egyptian Cats and Greek Curiosity
ALEX TARBET When Herodotus and cats collide.
Did Amazons roam Ancient Rome?
ADRIENNE MAYOR The captivating case of Camilla.
If Homer had my Editor: Emailing the Ancients
ROSARIA MUNDA launches our new competition with some editorial suggestions for Homer.
The Tale of Two Beds: Wandering and Homecoming in the Odyssey
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI How two different Homeric beds stand in stark opposition.
Antigone the Opera
EDWARD NESBIT Transforming Greek tragedy into modern opera.
Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation
MIRIAM KAMIL Why is harming trees a human taboo?
Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.
MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?
To Heaven on a Chariot: The Incredible Story of Poppaea Sabina
PAUL SCHUBERT A Greek poem, a Roman empress, and life among the gods.
Coldplay, Achilles, and Spiderman
BRIAN THENG How does ancient heroism chime with 21st-century romance?
Sophoclesโ Antigone and the Sources of Human Ethics
DAVID KONSTAN What did Ancient Greeks make of Antigone's heroism?
Antigone introduces Anna Julia Cooper, Mother of Black Classical Education
ANIKA PRATHER Where heroines of Greek myth and American education overlap.
Being a Child in the Iliad
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What happens to family values in Homer's world of warriors?
Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale
MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did the Ancient Greeks crack the code of cryptography?
Remember Their Names: The Women Who Almost Saved Troy
CHRISTINE LEHNEN The enduring power of Amazonian Penthesilea and Trojan Hippodamia.
Robert Wood and the Eighteenth-Century โSearchโ for Troy
LESLEY FITTON How to look for Troy when you think there's nothing to find?
The Ancient Power of Textiles: Coping with Loss and Lockdown
DOMINIQUE NIGHTINGALE Lessons from Penelope and other weavers of Greek mythology.
Platoโs Cave, Narniaโs Wardrobe: How to Escape the Zeitgeist
EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.
Charming or Instructing? The Greeks on the Function of Music
KRYSTYNA BARTOL What did the Ancient Greeks think music was actually for?
The Letters of a Persian Satrap
CHRISTOPHER TUPLIN A rare window into the world of Arลกฤma, an Achaemenid governor.
Learning from the Master: Socratesโ Examined Life
CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.
The Long and the Short of Latin Poetry
DAVID BUTTERFIELD How the Romans used the Greeks to reinvent poetry.
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre
DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.
Reading Greek Literature with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
EDWARD M. HARRIS Surveying slavery in Ancient Greece through the lens of pre-Civil-War America.
Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL The rich rewards of reading between - and beneath - the lines of ancient texts.
Hell-to-men? Helen and Her Magic Names
ELลปBIETA WESOลOWSKA What should we call the most enigmatic figure in Greek literature?
“My Inquisitive Girlish Gaze”: How Women Speak in Greek Drama
IMOGEN STEAD How can we find 'real' female speech in all-male drama?
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: A Fair and Honest Peace
ANDREW DAVID IRVINE Who has the last laugh in wartime comedy?
Asebeia? An Outsider’s Claim on the Classics
TULLY WILLIAMS Where to start with Classics when you haven't got a map?
Two Concepts of Free Speech, from Classical Athens to Today’s Campus
JAMES KIERSTEAD How Ancient Greek practice can help bridge the university divide.
The Tyranny of Titles: The Complex Case of Oedipus
ROSIE WYLES What does it mean to be a tragic tyrant?
Big Gods Don’t Cry, Do They?
LLEWELYN MORGAN How the teardrop explodes in Ovidian elegy.
Homer on Paying Attention
ALEX PETKAS Odyssean focus on the epic journey home.
A Showman’s Odyssey
MILLY AYERS An inspiring journey into Classics.
First Thoughts on the “New Naso”
CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso
Eating Yourself Empty: Erysichthon and the Environment
ROBERT SANTUCCI How can an ancient myth help us understand ecological disaster?
Don’t Look Back in Anger: On Remembering to Forget
DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA How did the Greeks move on from the shared pains of the past?
Being Truly Alive: Plotinus on Mindfulness
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What being in the moment meant for a Platonic philosopher.
The Music of Sophoclesโ Ode to Man
ARMAND D'ANGOUR Resurrecting the sound of Greek choral song.
Why We Need Antigone
EDMUND STEWART To forge a vision for the future, look back to learn from the past.