ANCIENT POEMS Of, and on, J.R.R. Tolkien
Category: Latin Literature
Catullus, Periods 1 and 2
GAVIN McCORMICK Ancient poetry, modern readers.
Stoicism in the Fourth Satire of Persius
KATERINA KOURTOGLOU Socrates and Alcibiades discuss the big questions.
Antigone’s Most-Read Articles
AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!
Why Translate Seneca?
An exchange between DANA GIOIA and MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI
Mickiewicz in Greek and Latin
JERZY DANIELEWICZ & MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Putting the Polish Goethe in Classical dress.
The Politics of Punctuation: Changing History One Mark at a Time
FLORENCE HAZRAT Who decides how a sentence flows?
A Poetic Jewel from Late Antiquity: Prudentius’ Psychomachia
PETER HULSE An epic battle of the soul.
What Did Palaeo-European Peoples Write? Local Languages of the Western Mediterranean
GABRIELA DE TORD BASTERA Uncovering long-lost languages.
The Italian Job: Lucretius in the Renaissance
LUKE SLATTERY Did Lucretius really make the modern world?
Coronation Verses: Vivat Carolus Rex
LATIN POEMS To mark a new King.
What Cicero Should Have Done: The Catilinarian Conspiracy Revisited
R. A. MAGUIRE Could Cicero have avoided exile?
Julius Caesar’s Last Words
J.S. UBHI Beware the Ides of March
Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt's 'Meghnadbadh Kabya'.
The Last Night of Troy: The Helen Episode in Aeneid 2
PETER HULSE Who would cut an epic episode?
Burning Sappho in Love and Song
ARMAND D'ANGOUR Piecing together Sappho's most famous poem.
Larkin in Latin
OXFORD POETS Put Philip Larkin in Classical dress.
The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250
DIVERS HANDS What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part III
J.S. BOPARAI Why a modern novelist became Classical.
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part II
J.S. BOPARAI Trinidad's greatest novelist explores the ruins.
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part I
J.S. BOPARAI On a Classic Novelist's Classical Education in Trinidad.
Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole
JOHN ROTH What can we learn from Regulus?
O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past
ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.
Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation
MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.
Was Apuleius a Witch?
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI When wandering scholars go rogue.
Vice versificata: Poetry in the Remaking
STEPHEN COOMBS What matters in verse translation?
Eating and Living in Ancient Rome
TOMASZ SAPOTA Getting your fill in Latin literature.
The War that Made the Roman Empire: An Interview with Barry Strauss
BARRY STRAUSS Revisiting the Battle of Actium.
The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin’s In Certamen Pilae
WILLIAM GOLDWIN Cricket 1700-style.
Carmina De Regina Nostra: Latin Poems in Honour of Queen Elizabeth II
Three Latin odes.
Epic Potery: Drinking with the Ancients
DAVID BUTTERFIELD Go hard or go Homer.
Metre and Writer
STEPHEN COOMBS Latin poetry as a living art form.
The Man Who Invented Syphilis: Splendours and Miseries of Neo-Latin Literature
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Frolicking with Fracastoro.
Classics in Slices: Scattered Thoughts on Interpolation-Criticism
GABRIELE ROTA What happens when readers become writers?
Castaway: Souls, Survival and Sand-grains in Horace Odes 1.28
ANNE HARDY Hearing the voice of the vanished.
Horror in the Service of Stoic Philosophy: Seneca’s Medea
DAGMAR KIESEL Facing the furor of filicide.
American Argonauts (or, What Jason did next)
PETER HULSE Finding yourself in a Neo-Latin fantasy.
Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek
TOM MORAN A monumental misunderstanding of literature?
The Ecstasy and the Agony: Mania, Manhood and Misery in Catullus 63
ANNE HARDY The strangest poem in Latin literature?
More Modern Latin Poetry
FINDING NEW WAYS To play with Latin verse.
Rock Music
GREGORY HUTCHINSON Hitting the hard stuff in Classical literature.
Crosswords in Latin
PAUL McKENNA Cruciverba quaedam Romana.
Aeneas in Cossack-land: Kotliarevsky’s Ukrainian Eneida
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY The poem that put Ukraine on the map.
Why Compare Greek and Latin?
JOSHUA T. KATZ The first line of Latin literature has some answers.
Hunting the Hortensius, Cicero’s Lost Protreptic
JUDITH STOVE Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?
Gellius in Antonine Society
LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS⠀ The manifold joys of Roman miscellanea.
Catullus: Foul-mouthed Genius?
JOHN GODWIN How to make art from obscenity?
Ukraine’s Island of Heroes
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI How heroism on an island links the past and present.
Versus de Scachis: When Chess Reached Europe
PETER HULSE A monkish poem on the game of kings.
Catullus and the Bad Poets Society
ALEKSANDRA KLĘCZAR The pleasure of writing good poems about bad ones.
Covid and the Classics Competition Winners
OUR READERS Are ingenious folk.
The Cult of Cicero: Have Latinists Been Brainwashed?
JOSEY PARKER Must we talk like Cicero?
Julius Caesar and the Art of Hybrid War
BIJAN OMRANI The guile and spin of Caesar's campaigns.
Should You Be Upset? Cicero on the Desirability of Emotion
KATHARINA VOLK When should we really care?
Vergil, Versailles and Us: the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Did 17th-century French art and literature outshine the Classics?
Pygmalion Now? The Case of Sophia, the Humanoid Robot
ANNA DANIELEWICZ-BETZ What happens if Pygmalion's myth now becomes reality?
Some Games in Greek and Latin
THE FUN of playing in the Classical tradition.
Riding with Phaethon
PHILIP HARDIE How one man's fall still illuminates the world.
Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome
RICHARD HUTCHINS What did the Epicurean poet Lucretius make of nature versus nurture?
Mary and Minerva: Symbolic Protest and the Destruction of Female Beauty
ENLLI LEWIS Does Medusa have a more positive tale to tell?
Did Amazons roam Ancient Rome?
ADRIENNE MAYOR The captivating case of Camilla.
Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation
MIRIAM KAMIL Why is harming trees a human taboo?
Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.
MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?
Ubi est piscina? Teaching Ancient and Modern Languages
JUDY NESBIT Why Latin merits a different approach.
Ovid and Romanness in War and Metre
LLEWELYN MORGAN Why should I mention Pedo?
Party Lines: Jugs, Japes and the Generation Gap in Horace Ode 1.27
ANNE HARDY A heady cocktail of love and drink and danger.
Seeing the Ordinary: Uncovering Ancient Romans
ROBERT KNAPP What does Rome look like when we ignore the elites?
No Laughing Matter? What the Romans Found Funny
ORLANDO GIBBS The Fun and Farce of Plautus and Terence
Seneca and Nero: How (Not) to Give an Emperor Unwelcome Advice
CATHARINE EDWARDS Can philosophy help when the horse has bolted?
Whatever is true, is my own: Seneca’s open-minded enquiry
BARNABY TAYLOR The value of accepting that the other side is sometimes right.
On the Roman Road: A Journey with the poet Ausonius
BIJAN OMRANI Finding escapism in a little-read Latin travel poem.
Love and the Soul: the timeless tale of Cupid and Psyche
STEPHEN HARRISON The rich afterlife of Latin literature's most enduring fable.
“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?
Greeks, Romans, Monks, and Murder: the Chaotic History of Football in Britain
Episodes from the riotous tale of how football came to be.
The Long and the Short of Latin Poetry
DAVID BUTTERFIELD How the Romans used the Greeks to reinvent poetry.
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre
DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.
Catullus on the Cover: Sparrows Go Cheap
ISOBEL WILLIAMS The challenge of illustrating the poems of Catullus.
Tacitus on the Thrill of Writing
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Why we write, according to Rome's greatest historian.
Virgil’s First Eclogue: No Idyll
SEB HYAMS Has rural bliss always been a sham?
An Aaful Story: Ovid and the Geordie Spider
CORA BETH FRASER Finding familiarity in the tangled web of Ovid's Arachne.
The Road Not Taken: Cicero and Lesser Creatures
ANDREW SILLETT What became of those who lived in Cicero's shadow?
The Poet and the Nose: An Encrypted Message in the New Naso
JERZY DANIELEWICZ Uncovering Ovid's hidden muse.
First Thoughts on the “New Naso”
CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso
NASONIS P. OVIDI NASONIS NVPER REPERTVM FRAGMENTVM
CRITICAL INTRODUCTION to the New Naso
The New Naso: A Preliminary Appreciation
KATHARINA VOLK on the New Naso
A Very Short Introduction to the New Naso
LLEWELYN MORGAN on the New Naso
First Questions about the New Naso
FAQ about the New Naso
The New Naso: A Few Thoughts on Authorship and Date
PHILOMEN PROBERT on the New Naso
Naming and Shaming in the New Naso
TORSTEN MEIßNER on the New Naso
Following Common Scents in the New Naso
WOLFGANG DE MELO on the New Naso
Retracing the Old Steps of the New Naso: Authorship, Transmission and Reception
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI on the New Naso
Eating Yourself Empty: Erysichthon and the Environment
ROBERT SANTUCCI How can an ancient myth help us understand ecological disaster?
Creusa’s Farewell
GAVIN McCORMICK Finding closure amid the epic despair of Virgil's Aeneid.
How to be a Classical scholar – and a woman – in the fifteenth century
JOSEY PARKER The remarkable story of Isotta Nogarola (1419-66)
Caesars and Sopranos: the Shadow of Suetonius
TOM HOLLAND Ancient proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
