MAREK WฤCOWSKI The ineluctable spirit of Homer
Category: The Classical Tradition
Tolkienโs Epic Allusions in Peter Jacksonโs Films
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Epic silhouettes on screen
Prolegomena to Jane Harrison
ROGER KIMBALL On the Harrison mythos
The Science of Blunders: Confessions of a Textual Critic
JAMES WILLIS The highs and lows of editing texts
The Trouble with Aristophanes
SAMUEL GARTLAND & CONSTANZE GรTHENKE Can we laugh like the Greeks?
The Ancient Greek Soul: A Guide for Modern Readers
CHRISTOPHER TANFIELD On what makes us us
There and Back Again: the Motif of Nostos in J.R.R. Tolkienโs Novels
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI That yearning for home
Caesar in the Kremlin: Vladimir Putinโs Speeches in Latin
MICHAEL FONTAINE Latin of the New Empire
When Democracy Dies: the Fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BC
MORGAN KIM Is Augustus in the wings?
The Afterwards of Justice: Hesiod, the Greeks, and Moon Knight
JOHAN TRALAU Punishment will always arrive.
The Fall of Smaug and the Heel of Achilles
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Epic echoes in The Hobbit
On The Living Language of the Greeks
J.S. BLACKIE Classicists should *speak* Greek
In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice
CODY BARNHART Bring back broad knowledge
The Decline and Fall of Classical Rhetoric
JOSH ALLAN A eulogy for the art of rhetoric
Atomic Physics, Ancient and Modern
SHIKHAR MISRA Lucretius the quantum physicist
Centenary Elegiacs for the Society of Hellenic Studies
E.J. KENNEY & PAUL McKENNA A new commentary on modern Latin verses
Homer among the Villagers: Christian Verse Inscriptions from the Anatolian Steppe
KRYSTYNA BARTOL On epic epigraphy
Homeric Allusions in J.R.R. Tolkienโs Hobbit
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Epic elements in Middle Earth
An Exceedingly Short Introduction to Roman Law
NICHOLAS STONE What the Romans did for us
New Latin Verse, Please: Reviving Vates
DAVID MONEY Floreant poetae!
Fatherly Virtue in The Roman and American Republic
TOM JONES The piety of a killer's father
An Apology for Philology
SOLVEIG GOLD & JOSHUA KATZ Philologists who love language
John Buchan at 150, in Latin
NICHOLAS STONE Making Buchan Roman
My Road Trip to Meet Zeus: The Siwa Oasis and the Oracle of Ammon
GEOFFREY C. BENSON In search of wisdom in the Egyptian desert
Asquith on the Classics
H.H. ASQUITH A PM reflects on Classical scholarship
The Mystery of the Portonaccio Sarcophagus
A ROMAN BURIAL CHAMBER With a story to tell
More Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek Poems
SOME MORE POEMS By Philhellenes and Phillatines
Shadowed Lands: The Greek Periphery in the Fiction of Mitchison and Lewis
EDMUND RACHER The Hellenic fringe in 20th-century literature
Lucretius and the Religion of Materialism
HENRYK ELZENBERG Did Lucretius worship Nature?
On Staging a New Medea โ and its Sequel
NICK THOMAS Resurrects Medea and Family
Odysseus, Trauma and Identity in Homer and Pasoliniโs The Return
JAN PARKER The challenge of the nostos
Horace Odes 3.30 โExegi Monumentumโ: Wycombe Translation Initiative 2025
WYCOMBE RENDERERS Turn Horace four ways twice
What Would Aeneas Do? Heroic Ideals in Homer, Virgil and Sun Wukong
PATRICK LIU In search of ancient heroism
The Living Languages: Why Cambridge Needs Greek
J.K. STEPHEN How to stop Greek becoming a dead language
All the Small Things: Epicureanism, Then and Now
SPENCER KLAVAN What really matters in the world?
Travels through Anatolia
PETER HULSE Greeks, Romans, Sufis and subterranean settlements
The Laughter of Paschal Grace
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI The joy of Easter
The Wounded Surgeon: Socrates and Christ in T.S. Eliotโ East Coker IV
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI The poetic meeting of two soul healers
The Cranes of Ibycus: Schiller, Ibycus and Divine Justice
DAVID GOSSELIN Breathing new life into an ancient poet
A Musical journey in Classical Myth: from Straussโs Electra to Lisztโs Orpheus
JONATHAN KINGSTON Greek myth in classical strains
The Consolation of the Classics: War, Homecoming, and Memory
BRADLEY BRINCKA How ancient literature comforts veterans
Setting Euripides to Music
NICHOLAS ROMANOS On reviving ancient tragic music
Making Sense of Euripidesโ Orestes
NICHOLAS ROMANOS On a Greek tragedy ahead of its time
Recreating Euripidesโ Orestes
NICHOLAS ROMANOS On an Oxford Ancient Languages Society production
Antigone’s 4th Birthday
ANOTHER YEAR GONE Another year beckons!
Where are the Women in Plato’s Symposium?
ARMAND D'ANGOUR Talking about talking about love
Where on Earth Have You Seen That?! Aulus Gellius on The Aeneid
SAGA HERDESKOELD When scholars squabble over Classics
Robert Frostโs โThe Road Not Takenโ in Greek
JERZY DANIELEWICZ Hellenises an American hero
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
The Practical Case for Studying Latin
JOSH ALLAN On the use of usefulness
Spring in Midwinter: Mozartโs Et incarnatus est
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI How Mozart captures the Christmas spirit
Spending a Day with Philoctetes: Dio Judges the Great Tragedians
CAREY JOBE Reads tragedy with Dio Chrysostom
Claudian’s Battle of the Giants
PAUL MCKENNA Grapples with the Greek Gigantomachia
Oration on Quintilian and Statius’ Silvae
POLITIAN On Silver Latin's virtues
Why Read Lesser Writers? Politian on Silver Latin Literature
J.S. BOPARAI On a rousing Renaissance lecture
Machines or Mind? The Essay that Launched the Loebs
W.H.D. ROUSE On why the Classics matter
On Not Keeping Our Mouth Shut: Plato and Father Popieลuszko
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Defending Truth under Communism
When Venus Returns: Horatian Echoes in Hjalmar Sรถderbergโs The Serious Game
MARTINA BJรRK Finds Lydia rediviva
Conquering Sign: Staging Constantine
EDMUND RACHER On the emperor in mass media
A.E. Housman’s Introductory Lecture, 1892
A.E. HOUSMAN Sets the Victorians straight
The Old Gods Return: The Strange Story of Pagan Revivals
ROBIN DOUGLAS How the Classical pagan tradition endures
When Did the Roman Empire Fall?
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Chronicle of a death foretold
The Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Mantegna and the Classical Spirit
J.S. BOPARAI On one of the greatest artistic ventures
Classics and Christians in theย 12th Century
JAMIE COLLINGS Classics in the medieval age
Keeping the Latin Mass Alive
ANTIGONE On the Ancient Latin Mass
What the UK General Election Could Mean for Classics Educationย
GARY F. FISHER How the Classical ecosystem may change
Lucretius revisited: Ancient Wisdom in the AI Age
MATTHEW GLUCKMAN On an Epicurean warning
Roamin’ Algeria
THE BROTHERS FONTAINE Visit undervisited Roman ruins
Virgil in Sarmatia: Latin Epic in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
FRANCIS YOUNG Early-Modern Latin in Eastern Europe
Analysing Centaurs, Nymphs, and Gods: Carl Jung and Friedrich Creuzer
JAKUB HANDSZU On what the Greeks did for Jung
Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
ALAN CARDEW On a Classical Zealot
The Unfamiliar Name: T.S. Eliot on Hercules and the Pentecost
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI On Sophocles, Seneca and Eliot
The Crab: Facing Cancer in Greco-Roman Antiquity
KONSTANTINE PANEGYRES On a ubiquitous disease
The Mysterious Demetrios Moschos: Renaissance Scribe, Poet, Scholar
PETER HULSE Goes in search of a Spartan humanist
Latitudinous Homeric Alliteration
JEFFREY M. DUBAN Verbal artistry in the prince of poets
Dante, with and without Virgil
J.C. WILES On the meeting of two master-poets
Epic Echoes in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
ISABELLA REDMAYNE On a poetic reimagination of Homer
Why We Need the Tragic: Schiller, Cassandra and the Rebirth of Tragedy
DAVID GOSSELIN Offers a new translation of Cassandra
Syrinx and the Sirens: From Ancient Greece to Etruria
LOLA TEALE Reconstructs the pan-flute
Violins Singing in Latin: The Seven Last Words of Christ
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI From the Gospels to Haydn
How Not to Comment on the Classics
PRACTICAL CRITICISM Impractically done
Antigone Turns Three
HAPPY BIRTHDAY To our wee website!
A Life in Byzantium: Ten Questions with Averil Cameron
DAME AVERIL CAMERON Discusses her Byzantine career
The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton
JESSE RUSSELL On a true populariser of Classics
Homer in the Byzantine Classroom: Eustathios of Thessaloniki and John Tzetzes
BAUKJE VAN DEN BERG Reading Homer in Constantinople
A Greek Grammar in Armenian
ROBIN MEYER What could possibly go wrong?
To Stand in Heaven: the Prologue to John’s Gospel
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI In the beginning was the Word
Aeschylusโ Prometheus Unbound: Rebuilding a Lost Masterpiece
CAREY JOBE On a great, but vanished, tragedy
Banish the Big Liars: Epicurus on True Pleasure
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The distorting mirror of ancient critics
My Long Strange Trip to Aristophanesโ Gerytades
A.M. JUSTER Restores a long-lost comedy
Long Live the Snake: Cleopatraโs Poison
LORENZO SENECI Venomous herpetology in the ancient world
Naughty Noses and Pompous Pricks: Laurence Sterneโs Laughable Latin
MARK WALKER When Latin gets playful
Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain
AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.
The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles Debate: Return or Retain?
TISTA AUSTIN & ARMAND D'ANGOUR Just what should be done?
An Invitation into Antiquity
ANAND MANGAL From modern tech to ancient text
Bringing Dionysus to Life: A Story of Revelry and Outcasts
EMILY WENDT On translating Euripides Bacchae
Classicism in the Romantic Era IV: The Revenge of Classicism?
J.S. BOPARAI Maistre the master artist?
Classicism in the Romantic Era III: Stendhal, the Classical Romantic
J.S. BOPARAI Stendhal, Napoleon and the search for heroes.
The Abuse of History: Rory Stewartโs Caesar
T.P. WISEMAN On a recent BBC docudrama
Classicism in the Romantic Era II: Chateaubriand, the Romantic Classicist
J.S. BOPARAI Why read Chateaubriand?
Classicism in the Romantic Era I: Was Stendhal Right about the Classical Tradition?
J.S. BOPARAI How to define a 'classic'
How Would Virgil Speak in Chinese?
WENTAO ZHAI The Aeneid in Chinese poetry
Interview with a Gladiatrix
CAROLINE LAWRENCE Talks to a Roman reenactment legend
Maciste the Magnificent
ART POMEROY The Classics in classic films
The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win?
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI What animal inspires the good life?
The Last of the Greek Aoidoi: Jan Kลesadloโs Astronautilia
BEN BROADBENT A sci-fi epic in Homeric Greek
Tragedy Beyond the Battlefield: Grief in Homerโs Iliad and WWI Poetry
SAFA MALIK Uniting female grief in Troy and Troyes
Between Pandemic and Democracy: What Antigone Can Teach Us
MAGDA ROMANSKA Ancient and modern civic struggles
The Omega Book Prize
A NEW LITERARY PRIZE Of Olympian stature
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
JUSTIN STOVER & GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN Hunt one of the great lost books
Freud Meets Homer
MARK ADAIR Odysseus' Freudian hallucinations
Who First Realised the Earth was Round?
JAMES HANNAM A world-changing discovery in Greece
Steering with Sophocles
THERESA RYDER Stumbling upon Classics after school
Middle-Earth Songs: 50 Years After Tolkien
ANCIENT POEMS Of, and on, J.R.R. Tolkien
Catullus, Periods 1 and 2
GAVIN McCORMICK Ancient poetry, modern readers
War, Imperialism, and Democracy: Thucydidesโ Ukrainian War
MAREK WฤCOWSKI What can we learn from the Peloponnesian War?
Iter Romanum: A Roman Journey โ in Britain
PETER HULSE Exploring Corners of Roman Britain
The Fasces: Ancient Romeโs Most Dangerous Political Symbol
T.C. BRENNAN Rods, axes, and untrammelled power
Robert Southey and Rhyming Greek Grammar
CHARLOTTE MAY A Lake Poet curioso
Antigone’s Most-Read Articles
AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!
Why Translate Seneca?
An exchange between DANA GIOIA and MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI
Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day
BIJAN OMRANI Visits the Oxford Ancient Languages Society.
Mickiewicz in Greek and Latin
JERZY DANIELEWICZ & MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Putting the Polish Goethe in Classical dress.
Ancient History is Happening Now: Jacek Bocheลski and his Roman Trilogy
KATARZYNA MARCINIAK Celebrating a Classical trilogy.
What Can We Learn from Seneca Today?
DAVID FIDELER and CRISTIAN PฤTRฤศCONI How Stoicism still speaks to us.
The Politics of Punctuation: Changing History One Mark at a Time
FLORENCE HAZRAT Who decides how a sentence flows?
Barbarism and its Discontents in Ancient and Modern Ukraine
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Are barbarians in the eyes of the beholder?
The Italian Job: Lucretius in the Renaissance
LUKE SLATTERY Did Lucretius really make the modern world?
Coronation Verses: Vivat Carolus Rex
LATIN POEMS To mark a new King.
The Joys and Perils of Keeping a Latin Diary
LEE LANZILLOTTA Talking to yourself in Latin helps!
The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World
GISELLE ACOSTA Have attitudes to ink changed over millennia?
What Did Aspasia Really Look Like?
FRANCES FORBES-CARBINES Portraying Pericles' partner.
Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt's 'Meghnadbadh Kabya'.
Classical Culture in British India, Part II: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet and Classicist
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The poet who brought Latin and Greek into Bengali literature.
Raphaelโs School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.
Classical Culture in British India, Part I: The Bengal โRenaissanceโ
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI How Latin and Greek came to influence poetry in Calcutta.
Helena, Julian and Attila: The Twilight of Rome in 20th-century Fiction
EDMUND RACHER Rome's Recessional in the novels of Burgess, Waugh and Vidal.
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation: A Personal View
COME WATCH THE BBC at its most ambitious.
Uncancelling Tiberius
JOHN ROTH What made Augustus' successor go so very wrong?
Classically-themed Paintings, Courtesy of AI
GIOVANNI LIDO Artificial intelligence paints the ancients.
Tempora Mutantur: Two Decades as a Classics Librarian
CHARLOTTE GOODALL Change and continuity in Classics collections.
The Last Night of Troy: The Helen Episode in Aeneid 2
PETER HULSE Who would cut an epic episode?
On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the magic of Greek literature.
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 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.
The Value of Secondary-School Latin: A Student’s View
PATRICK HOMES What brings pleasure in the classroom?
Objects of Worship: A Japanese Journey in Ancient Religion and Modern Experience
THIERRY RICHARDS Kanzo Uchimura and the message of St Paul.
Larkin in Latin
OXFORD POETS Put Philip Larkin in Classical dress.
Classics and Mฤori Culture in New Zealand: Sir Apirana Ngata
SIMON PERRIS Classical currents in New Zealand waters.
Sponsian: Another Lost Emperor
ALFRED DEAHL How (not) to mould a fake emperor.
The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250
DIVERS HANDS What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part III
J.S. BOPARAI Why a modern novelist became Classical.
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part II
J.S. BOPARAI Trinidad's greatest novelist explores the ruins.
Theophrastus on the Philologist: The Lost Character Sketch
?THEOPHRASTUS? An ancient anthropologist on the modern Classicist.
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part I
J.S. BOPARAI On a Classic Novelist's Classical Education in Trinidad.
Civil Disobedience: A Puzzle in Plato’s Crito
ED LAMB How Socrates inspired Martin Luther King Jr.
How to Argue with Ted Turner’s Dad
GAVIN McCORMICK Why bother studying Classics?
Ad Fontes: When in Roman…
ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE Why does text look like it does?
The Newcastle Scholarship
ETON CLASSICS Testing times.
Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole
JOHN ROTH What can we learn from Regulus?
A Tour of London’s Greek Temples
EDMUND STEWART Greek revival on the streets of London.
O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past
ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.
When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament
DECLAN McCARTHY What are the rules of divine translation?
Living Descendants of Mark Antony
THEODORE KOPALIANI Lifting a 2,000-year-old veil.
Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Ciceroโs Consolation
MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.
Vice versificata: Poetry in the Remaking
STEPHEN COOMBS What matters in verse translation?
Classical Christian Education and Classics: Whatโs in a Name?
JOSEY WRIGHT How can two traditions combine?
Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact
CLARE CHANG Helios shines again on the screen.
The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin’s In Certamen Pilae
WILLIAM GOLDWIN Cricket 1700-style.
Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why do languages have weird forms?
A Serious Reckoning with the Past of Classical Studies
ERIC ADLER Isn't justice blind?
Carmina De Regina Nostra: Latin Poems in Honour of Queen Elizabeth II
Three Latin odes.
Whatever Happened to Caecilius?
PETER HULSE Caecilius est in alio loco!
Energy from Elegy: What Did the Greeks Use Elegiac Poetry for?
KRYSTYNA BARTOL Verse for all seasons.
One Thinks of Homer: Oliver St John Gogarty and James Joyce
TOM MORAN Joyce's epic conflict with a friend-turned-enemy.
Metre and Writer
STEPHEN COOMBS Latin poetry as a living art form.
โGrind never stopsโ, or The Life and Work of Isaac Casaubon
TOM KEELINE A window into the life of the hardest-working Classicist.
Requiem for Latin Classes
JAN KWAPISZ On Latin as a lifeline in learning.
The Man Who Invented Syphilis: Splendours and Miseries of Neo-Latin Literature
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Frolicking with Fracastoro.
Classics in Slices: Scattered Thoughts on Interpolation-Criticism
GABRIELE ROTA What happens when readers become writers?
What did Classics do to Christianity?
SIMON GOLDHILL The constant collision of rival worldviews.
Biblical Intertextuality: The Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant
JAN KOZลOWSKI Hidden threads in the Gospel of Luke
The Fate of Aristotleโs Library
LUCIANO CANFORA Did Aristotle's books found the Library of Alexandria?
American Argonauts (or, What Jason did next)
PETER HULSE Finding yourself in a Neo-Latin fantasy.
Bassaniโs Cemeteries: the Ancient Etruscans and the Jews of Ferrara
GAVIN McCORMICK The solemn power of ancient memory.
Shakespeareโs Hamlet: The Oresteia and a Question of Matricide
FROMA ZEITLIN Greek Tragedy and the Prince of Denmark.
Classics and Freedom in the Younger Europe
MATEUSZ STRรลปYลSKI Adam Mickiewicz on fighting tyranny
Sing to me, Muse: The Power of Museums
SAM ANDERSON Bringing the textbooks to life.
Classics in UK Universities: cui bono?
DAVID BUTTERFIELD Where are we going with all this?
Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek
TOM MORAN A monumental misunderstanding of literature?
Gilbert Highet, the First Celebrity Classicist
ROBERT J. BALL What does it mean to promote Classics to the public?
Murray and Dodds and Page (oh my!): On the Pleasure and Value of Wissenschaftsgeschichte
THEODORE NASH Hellenistic Warfare in Inter-war Oxford.
More Modern Latin Poetry
FINDING NEW WAYS To play with Latin verse.
Homer’s Scythian Readers
J.S. UBHI How did myths tour the ancient world?
Rock Music
GREGORY HUTCHINSON Hitting the hard stuff in Classical literature.