Greek Literature Archives - Antigone

Coldplay, Achilles, and Spiderman

Posted on 24th July 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

BRIAN THENG How does ancient heroism chime with 21st-century romance?

Sophocles’ Antigone and the Sources of Human Ethics

Posted on 15th July 202115th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy

DAVID KONSTAN What did Ancient Greeks make of Antigone's heroism?

Antigone introduces Anna Julia Cooper, Mother of Black Classical Education

Posted on 6th July 20217th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANIKA PRATHER Where heroines of Greek myth and American education overlap.

Being a Child in the Iliad

Posted on 29th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What happens to family values in Homer's world of warriors?

Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale

Posted on 27th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did the Ancient Greeks crack the code of cryptography?

Remember Their Names: The Women Who Almost Saved Troy

Posted on 27th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

CHRISTINE LEHNEN The enduring power of Amazonian Penthesilea and Trojan Hippodamia.

Robert Wood and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Search’ for Troy

Posted on 26th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

LESLEY FITTON How to look for Troy when you think there's nothing to find?

Celebrity Athletes in Ancient Greece: Go Hard or Go Home(r)

Posted on 23rd June 202123rd June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

MICHAEL PLOWDEN-ROBERTS Milo of Croton, Europe's first sporting superstar?

The Ancient Power of Textiles: Coping with Loss and Lockdown

Posted on 20th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture

DOMINIQUE NIGHTINGALE Lessons from Penelope and other weavers of Greek mythology.

Plato’s Cave, Narnia’s Wardrobe: How to Escape the Zeitgeist

Posted on 16th June 202113th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.