History Archives - Antigone

Remember Their Names: The Women Who Almost Saved Troy

Posted on 14th June 202115th June 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 9th June 20219th June 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?

The Romance of Ruins

Posted on 9th June 20219th June 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.

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

Posted on 27th May 202112th June 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

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

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

Posted on 19th May 202119th May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

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

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.

Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency

Posted on 3rd May 20213rd May 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?

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

Posted on 1st May 20212nd May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History

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

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?