ANNE HARDY The strangest poem in Latin literature?
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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?
Why a New Edition of The Golden Ass?
PETER SINGER Apuleius' amazing novel and animal rights in the Roman Empire.
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.
