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Category: Greek Literature

On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)

Posted on 29th January 202330th January 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

VIRGINIA WOOLF On the Magic of Greek Literature.

How Lost Secrets of Greek Astronomy were Rediscovered

Posted on 21st January 202321st January 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

PETER J. WILLIAMS A palimpsest of wonders.

Burning Sappho in Love and Song

Posted on 11th January 202312th January 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature

ARMAND D'ANGOUR Piecing together Sappho's most famous poem.

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.

Close Encounters of the Fishy Kind; or Oppian’s Maritime World

Posted on 8th December 202214th December 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature

KRYSTYNA BARTOL The secret society of Ancient Greek fish.

The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250

Posted on 22nd November 202223rd November 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

DIVERS HANDS What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?

Theophrastus on the Philologist: The Lost Character Sketch

Posted on 12th November 202213th November 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

?THEOPHRASTUS? An ancient anthropologist on the modern Classicist.

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.

Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact

Posted on 27th September 202227th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

CLARE CHANG Helios shines again on the screen.

Stop Talking: An Epigram of Palladas

Posted on 15th September 202228th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature

E.J. HUTCHINSON Hot takes: an old, cold take.

Energy from Elegy: What Did the Greeks Use Elegiac Poetry for?

Posted on 30th July 202214th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

KRYSTYNA BARTOL Verse for all seasons.

Tagged Elegy

What Sort of Thing is a Socrates?

Posted on 29th July 202214th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

ALEXANDRA BARO Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Tagged Socrates

Epic Potery: Drinking with the Ancients

Posted on 23rd July 202231st August 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, Material Culture

DAVID BUTTERFIELD Go hard or go Homer.

Tagged Drinking

One Thinks of Homer: Oliver St John Gogarty and James Joyce

Posted on 21st July 202231st August 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM MORAN Joyce's epic conflict with a friend-turned-enemy.

Tagged Homer

“Grind never stops”, or The Life and Work of Isaac Casaubon

Posted on 14th July 202215th July 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM KEELINE A window into the life of the hardest-working Classicist.

Tagged History of scholarship

A Field Guide to Greek Metre

Posted on 9th July 202212th December 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature

CARLO G. CARLUCCI The best book ever written.

Tagged Metre

Forms of Conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone: Part II

Posted on 7th July 20228th July 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature

ELTON BARKER When Tragedy tears itself apart.

Tagged Sophocles

Forms of Conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone

Posted on 7th July 20227th July 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature

ELTON BARKER When tragedy tears itself apart.

Tagged Sophocles

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

Polybius of Megalopolis: History Isn’t Always Written by Victors

Posted on 9th June 20229th June 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

GEORGINA LONGLEY The trials of a captive historian.

Tagged Historiography, Polybius

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Oresteia and a Question of Matricide

Posted on 4th June 20225th June 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

FROMA ZEITLIN Greek Tragedy and the Prince of Denmark.

Tagged Aeschylus, Oresteia, Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek

Posted on 26th May 20222nd October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

TOM MORAN A monumental misunderstanding of literature?

Tagged Shakespeare

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

Rock Music

Posted on 12th May 202213th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

GREGORY HUTCHINSON Hitting the hard stuff in Classical literature.

To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War

Posted on 7th May 20227th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Segal and Weil on how to live and love.

Tagged Homer

A Short History of Envy

Posted on 30th April 20221st May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

DAVID KONSTAN What turned the Greeks and Romans green.

Scholiastic Triumphs: Insights from Ancient Iliadic Readers

Posted on 26th April 202226th April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

CHARLIE BAKER How did ancient scholars explain the greatest Greek epic?

Tagged Homer, Scholia

Lamia, Sirens, and Female Monsters: Feminist Reframings of Classical Myth in 19th-Century Literature

Posted on 31st March 20223rd April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

NINA TRIARIDOU⠀ New voices for ancient stories.

A Fantasy of Justice: Revenge and the Other in Greek Tragedy

Posted on 24th March 202228th March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

JANEK KUCHARSKI What do legendary "barbarians" reveal about Ancient Greek beliefs?

Tagged Euripides

Homer and the Power of Story-telling

Posted on 1st March 20221st March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

KATHARINE RADICE How stories can empower their tellers as much as their listeners.

Tagged Homer

Ukraine’s Island of Heroes

Posted on 27th February 202230th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI How heroism on an island links the past and present.

Tagged Achilles, Ukraine

Singing in the Shadow of Homer

Posted on 17th February 202217th February 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOE GOODKIN Reawakening the Iliad blues.

Tagged Homer, Song

Covid and the Classics Competition Winners

Posted on 8th February 202213th February 2022 by Antigone in Competitions, Greek Literature, Latin Literature

OUR READERS Are ingenious folk.

Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted

Posted on 29th January 202231st January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, Top 20

ANDREW BEER The genuine pleasure of yielding to better arguments.

Tagged Socrates

Vergil, Versailles and Us: the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns

Posted on 25th January 202225th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Did 17th-century French art and literature outshine the Classics?

Tagged France, Virgil

Herodotus, Pirate Amazons, and How to Write about the Past

Posted on 22nd January 202222nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture

CHRISTINE LEHNEN Scythian women did things their way.

Tagged Amazons, Herodotus

The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham

Posted on 15th January 202216th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Classic wordplay from Classics-loving Tolkien.

Shake It Off, Solon: What Was the Seisachtheia?

Posted on 11th January 202212th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

STEVE O'SULLIVAN Exploring the mysteries of Solon's economic revolution.

Tagged Athens, Politics, Solon

Happy Eaters and Talkers, or The Great Idea of the Encyclopaedia

Posted on 15th December 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

KRYSTYNA BARTOL The chance to be a fly on the wall at an ancient symposium.

Tagged Athenaeus

Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class

Posted on 11th December 20216th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?

Tagged Cambridge, History of scholarship

Some Games in Greek and Latin

Posted on 9th December 202121st January 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

THE FUN of playing in the Classical tradition.

Tagged Neo-Latin, Verse composition

The Song of Seikilos: a Musically Notated Ancient Greek Poem

Posted on 7th December 20217th December 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture

ARMAND D'ANGOUR How to make Euterpe dance.

Tagged Music

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

Oedipus on his Life’s Path

Posted on 28th November 202116th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature

ELŻBIETA WESOŁOWSKA What goes around comes around.

Tagged Sophocles

Alcibiades and the Pitfalls of Personality Politics

Posted on 13th November 202110th December 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

ALFRED DEAHL The chaotic career of Athens' most notorious playboy-politician.

Tagged Alcibiades, Athens, Sparta

Sophists and the Mistrust of Authority

Posted on 6th November 202113th November 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy

SEYMOUR MAC MAHON The invincible power of independent thought.

Tagged Sophists

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

Sappho, the Shining Star

Posted on 28th October 202129th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

ANTON BIERL Illuminating the fragments of the world's most famous female poet.

Tagged Sappho

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

Mary and Minerva: Symbolic Protest and the Destruction of Female Beauty

Posted on 23rd October 202112th December 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ENLLI LEWIS Does Medusa have a more positive tale to tell?

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.

Did Amazons roam Ancient Rome?

Posted on 16th October 202119th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ADRIENNE MAYOR The captivating case of Camilla.

Tagged Amazons, Rome

If Homer had my Editor: Emailing the Ancients

Posted on 10th October 20212nd February 2022 by Antigone in Competitions, Greek Literature

ROSARIA MUNDA launches our new competition with some editorial suggestions for Homer.

Tagged Homer

The Tale of Two Beds: Wandering and Homecoming in the Odyssey

Posted on 9th October 202111th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI How two different Homeric beds stand in stark opposition.

Tagged Homer

Antigone the Opera

Posted on 5th October 20215th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

EDWARD NESBIT Transforming Greek tragedy into modern opera.

Tagged Music, Sophocles

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

Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.

Posted on 21st September 202125th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?

Tagged Textual criticism

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

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?

Tagged Homer, Music

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?

Tagged Sophocles

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.

Tagged Education, History of scholarship, Sophocles

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?

Tagged Homer

Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale

Posted on 27th June 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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

Tagged Codes, Sparta

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.

Tagged Homer, Troy

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?

Tagged Troy

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?

Tagged Sport

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.

Tagged Homer

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

Posted on 16th June 202130th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.

Tagged Plato

Charming or Instructing? The Greeks on the Function of Music

Posted on 15th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy

KRYSTYNA BARTOL What did the Ancient Greeks think music was actually for?

Tagged Music, Philodemus

The Letters of a Persian Satrap

Posted on 7th June 202115th June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture

CHRISTOPHER TUPLIN A rare window into the world of Aršāma, an Achaemenid governor.

Tagged Persia

Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life

Posted on 3rd June 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.

Tagged Socrates

The Long and the Short of Latin Poetry

Posted on 21st May 202113th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature

DAVID BUTTERFIELD How the Romans used the Greeks to reinvent poetry.

Tagged Metre

An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre

Posted on 21st May 202118th December 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature

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

Tagged Metre

Reading Greek Literature with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Posted on 19th May 202122nd April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

EDWARD M. HARRIS Surveying slavery in Ancient Greece through the lens of pre-Civil-War America.

Tagged History of scholarship, USA

Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures

Posted on 17th May 202129th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL The rich rewards of reading between - and beneath - the lines of ancient texts.

Tagged Manuscripts1 Comment

Hell-to-men? Helen and Her Magic Names

Posted on 9th May 20219th May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ELŻBIETA WESOŁOWSKA What should we call the most enigmatic figure in Greek literature?

Tagged Euripides, Homer

“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

Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: A Fair and Honest Peace

Posted on 29th April 202129th April 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

ANDREW DAVID IRVINE Who has the last laugh in wartime comedy?

Tagged Aristophanes

Asebeia? An Outsider’s Claim on the Classics

Posted on 25th April 20211st May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

TULLY WILLIAMS Where to start with Classics when you haven't got a map?

Tagged Education, Outreach

Two Concepts of Free Speech, from Classical Athens to Today’s Campus

Posted on 21st April 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

JAMES KIERSTEAD How Ancient Greek practice can help bridge the university divide.

Tagged Athens, Education1 Comment

The Tyranny of Titles: The Complex Case of Oedipus

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

ROSIE WYLES What does it mean to be a tragic tyrant?

Tagged Sophocles, Tyranny1 Comment

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

Homer on Paying Attention

Posted on 5th April 20215th November 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ALEX PETKAS Odyssean focus on the epic journey home.

Tagged Homer1 Comment

A Showman’s Odyssey

Posted on 4th April 20216th August 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

MILLY AYERS An inspiring journey into Classics.

Tagged Education, Outreach1 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

Eating Yourself Empty: Erysichthon and the Environment

Posted on 30th March 202130th March 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ROBERT SANTUCCI How can an ancient myth help us understand ecological disaster?

Tagged Nature, Ovid

Don’t Look Back in Anger: On Remembering to Forget

Posted on 27th March 20213rd June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA How did the Greeks move on from the shared pains of the past?

Tagged Athens

Being Truly Alive: Plotinus on Mindfulness

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

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What being in the moment meant for a Platonic philosopher.

Tagged Plotinus

The Music of Sophocles’ 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

Why We Need Antigone

Posted on 10th March 20211st September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

EDMUND STEWART To forge a vision for the future, look back to learn from the past.

Tagged Russia, Sophocles, Tyranny
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