Philosophy Archives

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?

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

Posted on 20th July 202120th July 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

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

Sophocles’ Antigone and the Sources of Human Ethics

Posted on 15th July 202115th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy

DAVID KONSTAN What did Ancient Greeks make of Antigone's heroism?

Education in the cave, or: What imprisons us?

Posted on 13th July 202131st August 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

SARA AHBEL-RAPPE How can Classics help those behind bars?

The Philosophical Life: The Value of Diogenes Laertius’ Biographies

Posted on 8th July 20218th July 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

SPENCER KLAVAN Don't discount Diogenes' Lives.

Jesus Christ: the ‘Vitruvian Man’ on the Cross

Posted on 1st July 20212nd July 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

PABLO IRIZAR What connects depictions of Christ's crucifixion to the pre-Christian world?

The Enduring Appeal of the Stoics

Posted on 21st June 202121st June 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN SELLARS Why the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius still resonate.

Plato’s Cave, Narnia’s Wardrobe: How to Escape the Zeitgeist

Posted on 16th June 202113th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.

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?

Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale

Posted on 11th June 202115th July 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ANTIGONE Because dolor sit amet.

Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life

Posted on 3rd June 20213rd June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.

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?

What is Philosophy? The Islamic Reception of a Greek Idea

Posted on 11th May 202111th May 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

FITZROY MORRISSEY What did the "Philosopher of the Arabs" make of Plato?

Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation

Posted on 28th April 20217th May 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

FRISBEE SHEFFIELD How to have a debate and, whatever the result, come out of it better.

Asebeia? An Outsider’s Claim on the Classics

Posted on 25th April 20211st May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

TULLY WILLIAMS Where to start with Classics when you haven't got a map?

First Thoughts on the “New Naso”

Posted on 1st April 202124th July 2021 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

“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?

Being Truly Alive: Plotinus on Mindfulness

Posted on 24th March 202124th March 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What being in the moment meant for a Platonic philosopher.

The Greeks, Afghanistan, and the Buddha

Posted on 20th March 202122nd March 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Material Culture, Philosophy

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

Creusa’s Farewell

Posted on 18th March 202122nd March 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

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

Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle

Posted on 13th March 20216th August 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ANIKA PRATHER What would a Greek philosopher make of how you choose your friends?

We’re All Political Animals – and That’s a Good Thing

Posted on 12th March 202122nd March 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOSIAH OBER How do humans flourish in Aristotle's world?

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