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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?

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.

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?

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?

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!

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.

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?

Ukraine’s Island of Heroes

Posted on 27th February 202210th April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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

Versus de Scachis: When Chess Reached Europe

Posted on 26th February 202226th February 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE A monkish poem on the game of kings.

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.

Catullus and the Bad Poets Society

Posted on 15th February 202215th February 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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?

Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class

Posted on 11th December 202120th March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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 202119th October 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The exciting business of being Jerome

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

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 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.

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

Posted on 27th May 202130th April 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

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

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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.

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 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?

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“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?

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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?

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?

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.

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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?

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?

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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 202122nd January 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, Top 20

CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso

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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?

“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?

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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.

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.

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