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Category: Latin Literature

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.

Larkin in Latin

Posted on 3rd December 20224th December 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

OXFORD POETS Put Philip Larkin in Classical dress.

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?

V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part III

Posted on 19th November 202219th November 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

J.S. BOPARAI Why a modern novelist became Classical.

V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part II

Posted on 13th November 202219th November 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

J.S. BOPARAI Trinidad's greatest novelist explores the ruins.

V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part I

Posted on 9th November 202214th November 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

J.S. BOPARAI On a Classic Novelist's Classical Education in Trinidad.

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.

Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation

Posted on 16th October 202217th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.

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.

Vice versificata: Poetry in the Remaking

Posted on 8th October 20228th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

STEPHEN COOMBS What matters in verse translation?

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.

The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin’s In Certamen Pilae

Posted on 25th September 202226th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

WILLIAM GOLDWIN Cricket 1700-style.

Carmina De Regina Nostra: Latin Poems in Honour of Queen Elizabeth II

Posted on 17th September 202218th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

Three Latin odes.

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

Metre and Writer

Posted on 16th July 20228th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

STEPHEN COOMBS Latin poetry as a living art form.

Tagged Metre

The Man Who Invented Syphilis: Splendours and Miseries of Neo-Latin Literature

Posted on 30th June 20221st July 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Frolicking with Fracastoro.

Tagged Neo-Latin

Classics in Slices: Scattered Thoughts on Interpolation-Criticism

Posted on 25th June 202220th December 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

GABRIELE ROTA What happens when readers become writers?

Tagged interpolation, Textual criticism

Castaway: Souls, Survival and Sand-grains in Horace Odes 1.28

Posted on 21st June 202216th July 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

ANNE HARDY Hearing the voice of the vanished.

Tagged Horace

Horror in the Service of Stoic Philosophy: Seneca’s Medea

Posted on 18th June 20223rd September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

DAGMAR KIESEL Facing the furor of filicide.

Tagged Euripides, Seneca, Stoicism

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

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

The Ecstasy and the Agony: Mania, Manhood and Misery in Catullus 63

Posted on 21st May 202221st May 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Latin Literature

ANNE HARDY The strangest poem in Latin literature?

Tagged Catullus, Euripides

More Modern Latin Poetry

Posted on 17th May 202217th May 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

FINDING NEW WAYS To play with Latin verse.

Tagged Neo-Latin, Verse composition

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.

Crosswords in Latin

Posted on 10th May 20221st September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PAUL McKENNA Cruciverba quaedam Romana.

Aeneas in Cossack-land: Kotliarevsky’s Ukrainian Eneida

Posted on 9th April 202210th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY The poem that put Ukraine on the map.

Tagged Ukraine, Virgil

Why Compare Greek and Latin?

Posted on 7th April 202230th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, Latin Literature

JOSHUA T. KATZ The first line of Latin literature has some answers.

Tagged Comparative Linguistics, Livius Andronicus

Hunting the Hortensius, Cicero’s Lost Protreptic

Posted on 5th April 20225th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Uncategorized

JUDITH STOVE Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?

Tagged Cicero

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

Catullus: Foul-mouthed Genius?

Posted on 17th March 202221st April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature

JOHN GODWIN How to make art from obscenity?

Tagged Catullus, Sex

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

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

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.

The Cult of Cicero: Have Latinists Been Brainwashed?

Posted on 3rd February 20225th February 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOSEY PARKER Must we talk like Cicero?

Tagged Cicero, Latinity

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

Pygmalion Now? The Case of Sophia, the Humanoid Robot

Posted on 13th January 202213th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANNA DANIELEWICZ-BETZ What happens if Pygmalion's myth now becomes reality?

Tagged Ovid

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

Riding with Phaethon

Posted on 27th November 202127th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PHILIP HARDIE How one man's fall still illuminates the world.

Tagged Ovid

Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome

Posted on 2nd November 20212nd November 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

RICHARD HUTCHINS What did the Epicurean poet Lucretius make of nature versus nurture?

Tagged Lucretius

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?

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

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

Ubi est piscina? Teaching Ancient and Modern Languages

Posted on 11th September 202112th September 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Future of Classics

JUDY NESBIT Why Latin merits a different approach.

Tagged Education

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

Party Lines: Jugs, Japes and the Generation Gap in Horace Ode 1.27

Posted on 31st August 20218th September 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature

ANNE HARDY A heady cocktail of love and drink and danger.

Tagged Drinking, Horace

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

Whatever is true, is my own: Seneca’s open-minded enquiry

Posted on 20th July 20215th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

BARNABY TAYLOR The value of accepting that the other side is sometimes right.

Tagged Seneca

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

Love and the Soul: the timeless tale of Cupid and Psyche

Posted on 19th June 202119th June 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

STEPHEN HARRISON The rich afterlife of Latin literature's most enduring fable.

Tagged Apuleius

“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation

Posted on 12th June 202112th June 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?

Tagged Translation

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

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

Catullus on the Cover: Sparrows Go Cheap

Posted on 13th May 202114th May 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ISOBEL WILLIAMS The challenge of illustrating the poems of Catullus.

Tagged Art history, Catullus

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

Virgil’s First Eclogue: No Idyll

Posted on 27th April 202127th April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

SEB HYAMS Has rural bliss always been a sham?

Tagged Pastoral, Virgil

An Aaful Story: Ovid and the Geordie Spider

Posted on 19th April 202119th April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

CORA BETH FRASER Finding familiarity in the tangled web of Ovid's Arachne.

Tagged Ovid

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 Poet and the Nose: An Encrypted Message in the New Naso

Posted on 13th April 202127th August 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The New Naso

JERZY DANIELEWICZ Uncovering Ovid's hidden muse.

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

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NASONIS P. OVIDI NASONIS NVPER REPERTVM FRAGMENTVM

Posted on 1st April 20216th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The New Naso

CRITICAL INTRODUCTION to the New Naso

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

A Very Short Introduction to the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

LLEWELYN MORGAN on the New Naso

First Questions about the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The New Naso

FAQ about the New Naso

8 Comments

The New Naso: A Few Thoughts on Authorship and Date

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

PHILOMEN PROBERT on the New Naso

Naming and Shaming in the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20211st April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

TORSTEN MEIßNER on the New Naso

Following Common Scents in the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

WOLFGANG DE MELO on the New Naso

Retracing the Old Steps of the New Naso: Authorship, Transmission and Reception

Posted on 1st April 20212nd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition, The New Naso

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI on the New Naso

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

Creusa’s Farewell

Posted on 18th March 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

GAVIN McCORMICK Finding closure amid the epic despair of Virgil's Aeneid.

Tagged Virgil

How to be a Classical scholar – and a woman – in the fifteenth century

Posted on 10th March 202123rd September 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOSEY PARKER The remarkable story of Isotta Nogarola (1419-66)

Tagged History of scholarship, Italy, Neo-Latin

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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