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The Eye of the Bat: Truth in Aristotle’s 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 PĂTRĂȘCONI 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 STRÓŻYŃSKI 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 Cicero’s 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: Seneca’s Medea
DAGMAR KIESEL Facing the furor of filicide.
The Fate of Aristotle’s Library
LUCIANO CANFORA Did Aristotle's books found the Library of Alexandria?
To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI 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, Cicero’s Lost Protreptic
JUDITH STOVE Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?
The Joy of a Humorless Stoic – 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.
Sophocles’ 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 Laertius’ Biographies
SPENCER KLAVAN Don't discount Diogenes' Lives.
Jesus Christ: the ‘Vitruvian Man’ 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.
Plato’s Cave, Narnia’s 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: Socrates’ 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 STRÓŻYŃSKI 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.
Creusa’s 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?
We’re All Political Animals – and That’s a Good Thing
JOSIAH OBER How do humans flourish in Aristotle's world?
