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The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World

Posted on 18th March 202319th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

GISELLE ACOSTA Have attitudes to ink changed over millennia?

What Cicero Should Have Done: The Catilinarian Conspiracy Revisited

Posted on 17th March 202317th March 2023 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

R. A. MAGUIRE Could Cicero have avoided exile?

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

Commodus: Rome’s Problem Child?

Posted on 9th March 20239th March 2023 by Antigone in History

DAN BILLINGHAM Finding the man behind the myth.

The Ancient Boundaries of Classics

Posted on 4th March 20235th March 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture

DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The rich interaction between Greece and Thrace.

Helena, Julian and Attila: The Twilight of Rome in 20th-century Fiction

Posted on 19th February 202319th February 2023 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND RACHER Rome's Recessional in the novels of Burgess, Waugh and Vidal.

The Roman Army’s Trusty Vultures: The World’s First Banded Birds

Posted on 16th February 202316th February 2023 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

ADRIENNE MAYOR When birds join the war effort.

Uncancelling Tiberius

Posted on 11th February 202311th February 2023 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN ROTH What made Augustus' successor go so very wrong?

Two Greeks, Two Romans, and a Monsterdog: A Balloon Debate with ChatGPT

Posted on 17th January 202319th January 2023 by Antigone in History, The Future of Classics, Uncategorized

A TALE OF SKY-HIGH CHAOS As told by Artificial Intelligence

On Aging, On Friendship: Cicero’s De Senectute

Posted on 15th January 202315th January 2023 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM Life lessons from Cicero.

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.

The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda

Posted on 4th December 20224th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Material Culture

ALAN BOWMAN The Romans of Britannia speak again.

Sponsian: Another Lost Emperor

Posted on 27th November 202218th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

ALFRED DEAHL How (not) to mould a fake emperor.

The Ends of History

Posted on 17th November 202218th November 2022 by Antigone in History

MICHAEL BONNER The decline and fall of declinism?

Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole

Posted on 29th October 202229th October 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN ROTH What can we learn from Regulus?

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.

Living Descendants of Mark Antony

Posted on 19th October 20227th November 2022 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

THEODORE KOPALIANI Lifting a 2,000-year-old veil.

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.

Domitian II – the Lost Roman Emperor

Posted on 4th October 20224th October 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

ALFRED DEAHL When coins make history.

Eating and Living in Ancient Rome

Posted on 1st October 202231st December 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

TOMASZ SAPOTA Getting your fill in Latin literature.

The War that Made the Roman Empire: An Interview with Barry Strauss

Posted on 29th September 20226th October 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Top 20

BARRY STRAUSS Revisiting the Battle of Actium.

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.

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

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

The Dewsbury Plaque revisited

Posted on 28th June 202229th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

(LIONEL SCOTT) What on earth is a temporary bus stop?

Tagged Archaeology

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

The Fate of Aristotle’s Library

Posted on 14th June 202215th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

LUCIANO CANFORA Did Aristotle's books found the Library of Alexandria?

Tagged Aristotle, Libraries

American Argonauts (or, What Jason did next)

Posted on 11th June 202230th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE Finding yourself in a Neo-Latin fantasy.

Tagged Argonautica, Neo-Latin

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

Bassani’s Cemeteries: the Ancient Etruscans and the Jews of Ferrara

Posted on 7th June 20227th June 2022 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

GAVIN McCORMICK The solemn power of ancient memory.

Tagged Etruscans

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

Gellius in Antonine Society

Posted on 29th March 202229th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Latin Literature

LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS⠀ The manifold joys of Roman miscellanea.

Tagged Aulus Gellius

The Writing’s on the Wall: Reading Roman Graffiti

Posted on 26th March 202227th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Material Culture

JERRY TONER⠀ Who writes on a house like this?

Tagged Graffiti, Pompeii

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

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

The Joy of a Humorless Stoic – Publius Rutilius Rufus

Posted on 8th March 20228th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy

ALEX PETKAS Finding joy in a life full of embarrassment.

Tagged Stoicism

Beyond the Metropolis? The Roman Town of Interamna Lirenas

Posted on 3rd March 20223rd March 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

ALESSANDRO LAUNARO Are buried towns really left behind?

Tagged Archaeology

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

Versus de Scachis: When Chess Reached Europe

Posted on 26th February 202211th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE A monkish poem on the game of kings.

Tagged Chess, Medieval Latin

Looking for Antinous

Posted on 19th February 20222nd March 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

CAROLE RADDATO The immortal image of Hadrian's lost love.

Tagged Antinous, Hadrian

Catullus and the Bad Poets Society

Posted on 15th February 20229th August 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

ALEKSANDRA KLĘCZAR The pleasure of writing good poems about bad ones.

Tagged Catullus

Ancient Cybersecurity III: From Greek Fire-signalling to WWI Code-crafting

Posted on 12th February 202211th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Sending high-security secrets from far away.

Tagged Codes

Julius Caesar and the Art of Hybrid War

Posted on 1st February 20222nd February 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

BIJAN OMRANI The guile and spin of Caesar's campaigns.

Tagged Julius Caesar, Warfare

Should You Be Upset? Cicero on the Desirability of Emotion

Posted on 27th January 202230th January 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Philosophy

KATHARINA VOLK When should we really care?

Tagged Cicero

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

Visions of Rome: An Interview with Mary Beard

Posted on 20th January 202220th January 2022 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

MARY BEARD Caesars, Statues, and Classics Now.

Tagged Roman Emperors

Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophy: Moral Lessons from Antiquity for the Modern World

Posted on 18th January 202228th February 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

MARTIN FERGUSON SMITH How would the Epicureans and Stoics face Covid-19?

Tagged Medicine

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

Learning to Read and Write in Ancient Rome

Posted on 16th December 202116th December 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

ALBERTO REGAGLIOLO How did the Romans begin their children's education?

Tagged Education, Linguistics

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

After Pericles, or What Can We Learn about Democracy from the Athenians?

Posted on 14th December 202115th December 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

MAREK WĘCOWSKI How to keep the power with the people?

Tagged Athens

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

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

Thucydides’ Trap: Are the USA and China today’s Athens and Sparta?

Posted on 4th December 20215th December 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART Is another Peloponnesian War really in the offing?

Tagged Athens, China, Sparta, USA

A.E. Housman and Miss A.M.B. Meakin: A Star Pupil in Victorian London

Posted on 18th November 202127th November 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

CHRISTOPHER STRAY Unpublished letters between Housman and a remarkable female pupil.

Tagged Housman

Alcibiades and the Pitfalls of Personality Politics

Posted on 13th November 202124th February 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

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

Tagged Alcibiades, Athens, Sparta

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

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

Roads and Bricks: Why study the Romans?

Posted on 4th November 20214th November 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE What does it mean when the Romans are within touching distance?

Tagged Archaeology

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

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 202117th February 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The exciting business of being Jerome

Tagged Jerome, The Bible

Sertorius: The Greatest Roman Rebel

Posted on 14th October 202114th October 2021 by Antigone in History

ALEX PETKAS Who actually stood up to the tyranny of Sulla?

Tagged Civil war, Rome

Classical Place-Names and the American Frontier

Posted on 7th October 20218th October 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

DANIEL KOCH Who lives in a town like Tully?

Tagged USA

What ever happened to Rhetoric? Cicero revisited

Posted on 2nd October 20212nd October 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

THOMAS DEGIROLAMI Could a Roman orator help heal our modern discourse?

Tagged Cicero, Rhetoric

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

What do you fear most? Tyranny and the Polis

Posted on 14th September 202114th September 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART Tyranny comes in many forms.

Tagged Politics, Tyranny

Ovid and Romanness in War and Metre

Posted on 7th September 20214th January 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

LLEWELYN MORGAN Why should I mention Pedo?

Tagged Ovid, Warfare

Chariot-Racing Hooliganism? The Nika Riots of Constantinople

Posted on 4th September 20214th September 2021 by Antigone in History

DAN BILLINGHAM What makes a riot riot?

Tagged Constantinople, Sport

Seeing the Ordinary: Uncovering Ancient Romans

Posted on 31st August 20211st September 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture

ROBERT KNAPP What does Rome look like when we ignore the elites?

Tagged Rome

No Laughing Matter? What the Romans Found Funny

Posted on 28th August 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Top 20

ORLANDO GIBBS The Fun and Farce of Plautus and Terence

Tagged Comedy

Seneca and Nero: How (Not) to Give an Emperor Unwelcome Advice

Posted on 21st August 202121st August 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Philosophy

CATHARINE EDWARDS Can philosophy help when the horse has bolted?

Tagged Nero, Roman Emperors, Seneca

Afghanistan, its pasts and futures.

Posted on 18th August 202119th August 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

LLEWELYN MORGAN Hope from history?

Tagged Afghanistan

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

In praise of Frank M. Snowden, Jr: a personal tribute

Posted on 17th July 202117th July 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

LINDSAY JOHNS Celebrating the most influential Black Classicist of the 20th century.

Tagged History of scholarship

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

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

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

On the Roman Road: A Journey with the poet Ausonius

Posted on 25th June 202125th June 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

BIJAN OMRANI Finding escapism in a little-read Latin travel poem.

Tagged Ausonius

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 Romance of Ruins

Posted on 9th June 20212nd September 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

IAN JENKINS and CELESTE FARGE What can we learn from Classical tourists of the 18th century?

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

Greeks, Romans, Monks, and Murder: the Chaotic History of Football in Britain

Posted on 27th May 20214th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

Episodes from the riotous tale of how football came to be.

Tagged Medieval Latin, Neo-Latin, Sport1 Comment

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

Tacitus on the Thrill of Writing

Posted on 7th May 20217th May 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Why we write, according to Rome's greatest historian.

Tagged Tacitus

Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency

Posted on 3rd May 202118th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?

Tagged Numismatics, Rome1 Comment

“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 Road Not Taken: Cicero and Lesser Creatures

Posted on 17th April 202117th April 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

ANDREW SILLETT What became of those who lived in Cicero's shadow?

Tagged Cicero, Rome

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

A Classic Mistake: Ceding Greece to the Ancient Greeks

Posted on 9th April 20219th April 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

KATHERINE KELAIDIS How to study the Ancient Greeks without forgetting those that came after.

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 New Naso: A Preliminary Appreciation

Posted on 1st April 20214th April 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The New Naso

KATHARINA VOLK on the New Naso

Numismatic Notes on Naso’s Nose

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The New Naso

NUMISMATISTS on the New Naso

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

“Especially in the Use of Weapons”: Plato and the Amazons

Posted on 26th March 202114th June 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, Philosophy

ADRIENNE MAYOR What lessons did Plato learn from Scythian warrior-women?

Tagged Amazons, Plato2 Comments

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

Caesars and Sopranos: the Shadow of Suetonius

Posted on 10th March 202115th September 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM HOLLAND Ancient proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Tagged Historiography, Roman Emperors, Suetonius1 Comment
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