The Classical Tradition Archives - Antigone

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

Posted on 16th June 202116th June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.

“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation

Posted on 12th June 202112th June 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?

Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale

Posted on 11th June 202112th June 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ANTIGONE Because dolor sit amet.

Robert Wood and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Search’ for Troy

Posted on 9th June 20219th June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

LESLEY FITTON How to look for Troy when you think there's nothing to find?

The Romance of Ruins

Posted on 9th June 20219th June 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

IAN JENKINS and CELESTE FARGE What can we learn from Classical tourists of the 18th century?

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.

Why a New Edition of The Golden Ass?

Posted on 30th May 202130th May 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PETER SINGER Apuleius' amazing novel and animal rights in the Roman Empire.

Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Measure of All Things

Posted on 28th May 202128th May 2021 by Antigone in Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

PABLO IRIZAR What lies behind the world's most famous sketch?

Greeks, Romans, Monks, and Murder: the Chaotic History of Football in Britain

Posted on 27th May 202112th June 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

Episodes from the riotous tale of how football came to be.

Mourning Howard Classics

Posted on 23rd May 202123rd May 2021 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ANIKA PRATHER Why the loss of one Classics department would be such a loss for the discipline.