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Category: Philosophy
In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice
CODY BARNHART Bring back broad knowledge
Whatโs the Point of Life? Aristotle and the New Academic Year
EDMUND STEWART Find joy and fight for it
Atomic Physics, Ancient and Modern
SHIKHAR MISRA Lucretius the quantum physicist
Lucretius and the Religion of Materialism
HENRYK ELZENBERG Did Lucretius worship Nature?
The House Always Wins: Boethius, Cicero and the Gamble of Fate
MATTHEW GLUCKMAN Who calls the shots in our universe?
All the Small Things: Epicureanism, Then and Now
SPENCER KLAVAN What really matters in the world?
Where are the Women in Plato’s Symposium?
ARMAND D'ANGOUR Talking about talking about love
The First Universities? Ancient Greek Philosophical Schools
EDMUND STEWART When was the university born?
Poetry from the Gods: The Mysterious Chaldaean Oracles
ROBIN DOUGLAS Platonism like you've never seen it.
How to Live Metaphysics? Plotinus on Contemplation
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Learning to think with Plotinus
From Soul to Soul: Voices from Antiquity
DANUTA SHANZER On empathy and the ancients
On Not Keeping Our Mouth Shut: Plato and Father Popieลuszko
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Defending Truth under Communism
Lucretius revisited: Ancient Wisdom in the AI Age
MATTHEW GLUCKMAN On an Epicurean warning
Plato the Prophet? The Crucified Just Man in the Republic and New Testament
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What does crucifixion mean?
To Stand in Heaven: the Prologue to John’s Gospel
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI In the beginning was the Word
Banish the Big Liars: Epicurus on True Pleasure
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The distorting mirror of ancient critics
Circe, Odysseus and the Disclosure of Hermes
STEPHEN PIMENTEL Circe the shaman?
Greek Intellectual Life under the Roman Empire
CHARLES FREEMAN Did Roman rule suppress Greek genius?
The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win?
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What animal inspires the good life?
Who First Realised the Earth was Round?
JAMES HANNAM A world-changing discovery in Greece
The Eye of the Bat: Truth in Aristotleโs Metaphysics
JONATHAN M. WRIGHT In search of ultimate truth
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!
What Can We Learn from Seneca Today?
DAVID FIDELER and CRISTIAN PฤTRฤศCONI How Stoicism still speaks to us.
What Colour are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL On verbal polychromy.
Uncancelling Tiberius
JOHN ROTH What made Augustus' successor go so very wrong?
Never-ending Crisis: The History of the Socratic Problem
OTTO LINDERBORG Will the real Socrates please stand up?
The Power of Reason: Benedict XVI and the Classics
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI A Pope's devotion to Latin and Greek.
How Lost Secrets of Greek Astronomy were Rediscovered
PETER J. WILLIAMS A palimpsest of wonders.
How to be an Aristotelian
JOHN SELLARS The most important human ever to have lived?
On Aging, On Friendship: Cicero’s De Senectute
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM Life lessons from Cicero.
Civil Disobedience: A Puzzle in Plato’s Crito
ED LAMB How Socrates inspired Martin Luther King Jr.
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 Ciceroโs Consolation
MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.
Will the Wise Man get Drunk? An Ancient Philosophic Controversy
JOHN DILLON Does the Sage know when to stop?
What Sort of Thing is a Socrates?
ALEXANDRA BARO Philosophy is not a spectator sport.
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: Senecaโs Medea
DAGMAR KIESEL Facing the furor of filicide.
The Fate of Aristotleโs Library
LUCIANO CANFORA Did Aristotle's books found the Library of Alexandria?
To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Segal and Weil on how to live and love.
A Short History of Envy
DAVID KONSTAN What turned the Greeks and Romans green.
Hunting the Hortensius, Ciceroโs Lost Protreptic
JUDITH STOVE Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?
The Joy of a Humorless Stoic โ Publius Rutilius Rufus
ALEX PETKAS Finding joy in a life full of embarrassment.
Navigating the Modern World: Plato’s Ship of State
JAMES SHIELDS What's the state of the Ship of State?
Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted
ANDREW BEER The genuine pleasure of yielding to better arguments.
Should You Be Upset? Cicero on the Desirability of Emotion
KATHARINA VOLK When should we really care?
Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophy: Moral Lessons from Antiquity for the Modern World
MARTIN FERGUSON SMITH How would the Epicureans and Stoics face Covid-19?
Happy Eaters and Talkers, or The Great Idea of the Encyclopaedia
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The chance to be a fly on the wall at an ancient symposium.
Everything Flows, or Does It? Heraclitus on Everything.
SJOERD VAN HOORN Piecing together ancient philosophy from the flux of fragments.
Sophists and the Mistrust of Authority
SEYMOUR MAC MAHON The invincible power of independent thought.
Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome
RICHARD HUTCHINS What did the Epicurean poet Lucretius make of nature versus nurture?
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.
Sophoclesโ Antigone and the Sources of Human Ethics
DAVID KONSTAN What did Ancient Greeks make of Antigone's heroism?
Education in the cave, or: What imprisons us?
SARA AHBEL-RAPPE How can Classics help those behind bars?
The Philosophical Life: The Value of Diogenes Laertiusโ Biographies
SPENCER KLAVAN Don't discount Diogenes' Lives.
Jesus Christ: the โVitruvian Manโ on the Cross
PABLO IRIZAR What connects depictions of Christ's crucifixion to the pre-Christian world?
The Enduring Appeal of the Stoics
JOHN SELLARS Why the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius still resonate.
Platoโs Cave, Narniaโs Wardrobe: How to Escape the Zeitgeist
EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.
Charming or Instructing? The Greeks on the Function of Music
KRYSTYNA BARTOL What did the Ancient Greeks think music was actually for?
Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale
DAVID BUTTERFIELD Because dolor sit amet.
Learning from the Master: Socratesโ Examined Life
CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.
Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Measure of All Things
PABLO IRIZAR What lies behind the world's most famous sketch?
What is Philosophy? The Islamic Reception of a Greek Idea
FITZROY MORRISSEY What did the "Philosopher of the Arabs" make of Plato?
Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation
FRISBEE SHEFFIELD How to have a debate and, whatever the result, come out of it better.
Asebeia? An Outsider’s Claim on the Classics
TULLY WILLIAMS Where to start with Classics when you haven't got a map?
First Thoughts on the “New Naso”
CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso
“Especially in the Use of Weapons”: Plato and the Amazons
ADRIENNE MAYOR What lessons did Plato learn from Scythian warrior-women?
Being Truly Alive: Plotinus on Mindfulness
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What being in the moment meant for a Platonic philosopher.
The Greeks, Afghanistan, and the Buddha
BIJAN OMRANI Piecing together Greek influence in the Asian kingdom of Bactria.
Creusaโs Farewell
GAVIN McCORMICK Finding closure amid the epic despair of Virgil's Aeneid.
Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle
ANIKA PRATHER What would a Greek philosopher make of how you choose your friends?
Weโre All Political Animals โ and Thatโs a Good Thing
JOSIAH OBER How do humans flourish in Aristotle's world?