Material Culture Archives - Antigone

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.

Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale

Posted on 27th June 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did the Ancient Greeks crack the code of cryptography?

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?

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 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.

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.

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?

The Romance of Ruins

Posted on 9th June 20219th June 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.

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?