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Category: Philosophy

What Colour are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship

Posted on 25th February 202326th February 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL On verbal polychromy.

Uncancelling Tiberius

Posted on 11th February 202311th February 2023 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN ROTH What made Augustus' successor go so very wrong?

Never-ending Crisis: The History of the Socratic Problem

Posted on 26th January 202326th January 2023 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

OTTO LINDERBORG Will the real Socrates please stand up?

The Power of Reason: Benedict XVI and the Classics

Posted on 24th January 202330th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI A Pope's devotion to Latin and Greek.

How Lost Secrets of Greek Astronomy were Rediscovered

Posted on 21st January 202321st January 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

PETER J. WILLIAMS A palimpsest of wonders.

How to be an Aristotelian

Posted on 19th January 202321st January 2023 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN SELLARS The most important human ever to have lived?

On Aging, On Friendship: Cicero’s De Senectute

Posted on 15th January 202315th January 2023 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM Life lessons from Cicero.

Civil Disobedience: A Puzzle in Plato’s Crito

Posted on 6th November 20229th November 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ED LAMB How Socrates inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole

Posted on 29th October 202229th October 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN ROTH What can we learn from Regulus?

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.

Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation

Posted on 16th October 202217th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.

Will the Wise Man get Drunk? An Ancient Philosophic Controversy

Posted on 13th September 20227th November 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, Top 20

JOHN DILLON Does the Sage know when to stop?

What Sort of Thing is a Socrates?

Posted on 29th July 202214th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

ALEXANDRA BARO Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Tagged Socrates

Castaway: Souls, Survival and Sand-grains in Horace Odes 1.28

Posted on 21st June 202216th July 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

ANNE HARDY Hearing the voice of the vanished.

Tagged Horace

Horror in the Service of Stoic Philosophy: Seneca’s Medea

Posted on 18th June 20223rd September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

DAGMAR KIESEL Facing the furor of filicide.

Tagged Euripides, Seneca, Stoicism

The Fate of Aristotle’s Library

Posted on 14th June 202215th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

LUCIANO CANFORA Did Aristotle's books found the Library of Alexandria?

Tagged Aristotle, Libraries

To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War

Posted on 7th May 20227th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Segal and Weil on how to live and love.

Tagged Homer

A Short History of Envy

Posted on 30th April 20221st May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy

DAVID KONSTAN What turned the Greeks and Romans green.

Hunting the Hortensius, Cicero’s Lost Protreptic

Posted on 5th April 20225th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Uncategorized

JUDITH STOVE Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?

Tagged Cicero

The Joy of a Humorless Stoic – Publius Rutilius Rufus

Posted on 8th March 20228th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy

ALEX PETKAS Finding joy in a life full of embarrassment.

Tagged Stoicism

Navigating the Modern World: Plato’s Ship of State

Posted on 22nd February 202216th March 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JAMES SHIELDS What's the state of the Ship of State?

Tagged Plato, Politics

Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted

Posted on 29th January 202231st January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, Top 20

ANDREW BEER The genuine pleasure of yielding to better arguments.

Tagged Socrates

Should You Be Upset? Cicero on the Desirability of Emotion

Posted on 27th January 202230th January 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Philosophy

KATHARINA VOLK When should we really care?

Tagged Cicero

Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophy: Moral Lessons from Antiquity for the Modern World

Posted on 18th January 202228th February 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

MARTIN FERGUSON SMITH How would the Epicureans and Stoics face Covid-19?

Tagged Medicine

Happy Eaters and Talkers, or The Great Idea of the Encyclopaedia

Posted on 15th December 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

KRYSTYNA BARTOL The chance to be a fly on the wall at an ancient symposium.

Tagged Athenaeus

Everything Flows, or Does It? Heraclitus on Everything.

Posted on 20th November 202121st November 2021 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

SJOERD VAN HOORN Piecing together ancient philosophy from the flux of fragments.

Tagged Heraclitus

Sophists and the Mistrust of Authority

Posted on 6th November 202113th November 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Philosophy

SEYMOUR MAC MAHON The invincible power of independent thought.

Tagged Sophists

Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome

Posted on 2nd November 20212nd November 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

RICHARD HUTCHINS What did the Epicurean poet Lucretius make of nature versus nurture?

Tagged Lucretius

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?

Tagged Nero, Roman Emperors, Seneca

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

Posted on 20th July 20215th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

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

Tagged Seneca

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?

Tagged Sophocles

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?

Tagged Education, Plato

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.

Tagged Diogenes Laertius

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?

Tagged Christianity

The Enduring Appeal of the Stoics

Posted on 21st June 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

JOHN SELLARS Why the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius still resonate.

Tagged Stoicism

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

Posted on 16th June 202130th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.

Tagged Plato

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

Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale

Posted on 11th June 20212nd March 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

DAVID BUTTERFIELD Because dolor sit amet.

Tagged Neo-Latin

Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life

Posted on 3rd June 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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

Tagged Socrates

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

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?

Tagged Islam

Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation

Posted on 28th April 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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

Tagged Socrates3 Comments

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?

Tagged Education, Outreach

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

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“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

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.

Tagged Plotinus

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

Creusa’s Farewell

Posted on 18th March 20218th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy

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

Tagged Virgil

Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle

Posted on 13th March 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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

Tagged Aristotle2 Comments

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

Posted on 12th March 202129th May 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

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

Tagged Aristotle3 Comments
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