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Category: Material Culture

What Did Aspasia Really Look Like?

Posted on 16th March 202316th March 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

FRANCES FORBES-CARBINES Portraying Pericles' partner.

The Ancient Boundaries of Classics

Posted on 4th March 20235th March 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture

DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The rich interaction between Greece and Thrace.

Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance

Posted on 26th February 202326th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.

The Roman Army’s Trusty Vultures: The World’s First Banded Birds

Posted on 16th February 202316th February 2023 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

ADRIENNE MAYOR When birds join the war effort.

Classically-themed Paintings, Courtesy of AI

Posted on 5th February 20236th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

GIOVANNI LIDO Artificial intelligence paints the ancients.

Tempora Mutantur: Two Decades as a Classics Librarian

Posted on 4th February 20235th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

CHARLOTTE GOODALL Change and continuity in Classics collections.

The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda

Posted on 4th December 20224th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Material Culture

ALAN BOWMAN The Romans of Britannia speak again.

Sponsian: Another Lost Emperor

Posted on 27th November 202218th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

ALFRED DEAHL How (not) to mould a fake emperor.

Ad Fontes: When in Roman…

Posted on 3rd November 20223rd November 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE Why does text look like it does?

A Tour of London’s Greek Temples

Posted on 26th October 202227th October 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART Greek revival on the streets of London.

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.

Domitian II – the Lost Roman Emperor

Posted on 4th October 20224th October 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

ALFRED DEAHL When coins make history.

Whatever Happened to Caecilius?

Posted on 11th September 202211th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE Caecilius est in alio loco!

Tagged Education, Sculpture

What You Need to Build a Greek Temple

Posted on 8th September 202230th September 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Material Culture, Top 20

EDMUND STEWART How hard can it be? Answer: very.

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

The Dewsbury Plaque revisited

Posted on 28th June 202229th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture

(LIONEL SCOTT) What on earth is a temporary bus stop?

Tagged Archaeology

Sing to me, Muse: The Power of Museums

Posted on 31st May 202231st May 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

SAM ANDERSON Bringing the textbooks to life.

Tagged Education, Museums

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?

Tagged Comparative Linguistics, Homer, Scythia

Shug Days: Cracking a 270-year-old Epigraphical Mystery

Posted on 28th April 202228th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

JACK MITCHELL Eight letters you can't get out of your head.

Tagged Epigraphy

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?

Tagged Graffiti, Pompeii

Cultural Landmark for Sale: The Classical Treasures of Rome’s Casino dell’Aurora

Posted on 12th March 202220th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

COREY BRENNAN Explore the world's most expensive home.

Tagged Art history

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?

Tagged Archaeology

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

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.

Tagged Antinous, Hadrian

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.

Tagged Codes

Cork Models of the Ruins of Rome

Posted on 5th February 20225th February 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ROLAND MAYER How Classical architecture became a portable luxury.

Tagged Architecture, Art history

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.

Tagged Amazons, Herodotus

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.

Tagged Music

Cyprus and Aphrodite: The Original Love Island?

Posted on 5th December 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture

DAISY KNOX Where in the world was Aphrodite born?

Tagged Art history

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?

Tagged Athens, Myth

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?

Tagged Archaeology

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?

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.

Painting for Classicists: Classicism, Antiquity and Nicolas Poussin

Posted on 18th September 20213rd January 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Do Classicists in art galleries really know the answers?

Tagged Art history, France

Epigraphomania in Ottoman Lands: Richard Chandler and the Epigraphic Obsession

Posted on 2nd September 20212nd September 2021 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ROBERT PITT It's hard to keep calm when the writing's on the wall.

Tagged Epigraphy

From Big Digs to Small Things Forgotten: the Past, Present, and Future of Classical Archaeology

Posted on 31st August 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ULRIKE KROTSCHECK Our ever-evolving engagement with Greco-Roman material culture.

Tagged Archaeology

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

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?

Tagged Afghanistan

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.

Tagged Religion

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?

Tagged Codes, Sparta

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?

Tagged Troy

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?

Tagged Sport

The Ancient Power of Textiles: Coping with Loss and Lockdown

Posted on 20th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture

DOMINIQUE NIGHTINGALE Lessons from Penelope and other weavers of Greek mythology.

Tagged Homer

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

Charming or Instructing? The Greeks on the Function of Music

Posted on 15th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy

KRYSTYNA BARTOL What did the Ancient Greeks think music was actually for?

Tagged Music, Philodemus

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.

Tagged Persia

Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Measure of All Things

Posted on 28th May 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

PABLO IRIZAR What lies behind the world's most famous sketch?

Tagged History of art, Vitruvius

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

Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures

Posted on 17th May 202129th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL The rich rewards of reading between - and beneath - the lines of ancient texts.

Tagged Manuscripts1 Comment

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

Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency

Posted on 3rd May 202118th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?

Tagged Numismatics, Rome1 Comment

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

1 Comment

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

Field of Dreams: Schliemann’s Excavation of Troy

Posted on 28th March 202128th March 2021 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

HARRY HUDSON What do archaeologists find when they dig deep with epic confidence?

Tagged Archaeology, Troy

“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?

Tagged Amazons, Plato2 Comments

The Music of Sophocles’ Ode to Man

Posted on 22nd March 202129th March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, Material Culture

ARMAND D'ANGOUR Resurrecting the sound of Greek choral song.

Tagged Music, Sophocles

The Greeks, Afghanistan, and the Buddha

Posted on 20th March 202118th April 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Material Culture, Philosophy

BIJAN OMRANI Piecing together Greek influence in the Asian kingdom of Bactria.

Tagged Afghanistan1 Comment

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.

Tagged Athens, Religion
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