MARK ADAIR Odysseus' Freudian hallucinations
Category: The Classical Tradition
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: Thucydides’ Ukrainian War
MAREK WĘCOWSKI What can we learn from the Peloponnesian War?
Iter Romanum: A Roman Journey – in Britain
PETER HULSE Exploring Corners of Roman Britain
The Fasces: Ancient Rome’s 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 STRÓŻYŃSKI
Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day
BIJAN OMRANI Visits the Oxford Ancient Languages Society.
Mickiewicz in Greek and Latin
JERZY DANIELEWICZ & MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Putting the Polish Goethe in Classical dress.
Ancient History is Happening Now: Jacek Bocheński and his Roman Trilogy
KATARZYNA MARCINIAK Celebrating a Classical trilogy.
What Can We Learn from Seneca Today?
DAVID FIDELER and CRISTIAN PĂTRĂȘCONI 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.
Raphael’s 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 ‘Renaissance’
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 STRÓŻYŃSKI 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?
Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain
AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.
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 Māori 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 Cicero’s 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: What’s 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.
“Grind never stops”, 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 KOZŁOWSKI Hidden threads in the Gospel of Luke
The Fate of Aristotle’s 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.
Bassani’s Cemeteries: the Ancient Etruscans and the Jews of Ferrara
GAVIN McCORMICK The solemn power of ancient memory.
Shakespeare’s 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 STRÓŻYŃSKI 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.
Crosswords in Latin
PAUL McKENNA Cruciverba quaedam Romana.
To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Segal and Weil on how to live and love.
Latin with an Accent
WOLFGANG DE MELO The Romans on how to speak proper.
Shug Days: Cracking a 270-year-old Epigraphical Mystery
JACK MITCHELL Eight letters you can't get out of your head.
Scholiastic Triumphs: Insights from Ancient Iliadic Readers
CHARLIE BAKER How did ancient scholars explain the greatest Greek epic?
Aeneas in Cossack-land: Kotliarevsky’s Ukrainian Eneida
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY The poem that put Ukraine on the map.
Hunting the Hortensius, Cicero’s Lost Protreptic
JUDITH STOVE Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?
Lamia, Sirens, and Female Monsters: Feminist Reframings of Classical Myth in 19th-Century Literature
NINA TRIARIDOU⠀ New voices for ancient stories.
Cultural Landmark for Sale: The Classical Treasures of Rome’s Casino dell’Aurora
COREY BRENNAN Explore the world's most expensive home.
Homer and the Power of Story-telling
KATHARINE RADICE How stories can empower their tellers as much as their listeners.
Ukraine’s Island of Heroes
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI How heroism on an island links the past and present.
Versus de Scachis: When Chess Reached Europe
PETER HULSE A monkish poem on the game of kings.
What You See is What They Wrote? Thoughts on Latin Spelling
WOLFGANG DE MELO Orthography matters.
Navigating the Modern World: Plato’s Ship of State
JAMES SHIELDS What's the state of the Ship of State?
Looking for Antinous
CAROLE RADDATO The immortal image of Hadrian's lost love.
Singing in the Shadow of Homer
JOE GOODKIN Reawakening the Iliad blues.
Ancient Cybersecurity III: From Greek Fire-signalling to WWI Code-crafting
MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Sending high-security secrets from far away.
Why Should We Save the Classical Tradition?
RAFAŁ TOCZKO The ineluctable importance of the Greco-Roman legacy.
Cork Models of the Ruins of Rome
ROLAND MAYER How Classical architecture became a portable luxury.
The Cult of Cicero: Have Latinists Been Brainwashed?
JOSEY PARKER Must we talk like Cicero?
Julius Caesar and the Art of Hybrid War
BIJAN OMRANI The guile and spin of Caesar's campaigns.
Vergil, Versailles and Us: the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Did 17th-century French art and literature outshine the Classics?
Visions of Rome: An Interview with Mary Beard
MARY BEARD Caesars, Statues, and Classics Now.
Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophy: Moral Lessons from Antiquity for the Modern World
MARTIN FERGUSON SMITH How would the Epicureans and Stoics face Covid-19?
The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Classic wordplay from Classics-loving Tolkien.
Pygmalion Now? The Case of Sophia, the Humanoid Robot
ANNA DANIELEWICZ-BETZ What happens if Pygmalion's myth now becomes reality?
Can Music Help Your Latin?
GAVIN McCORMICK What can be learned from Ecclesiastical Latin?
Learning to Read and Write in Ancient Rome
ALBERTO REGAGLIOLO How did the Romans begin their children's education?
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.
After Pericles, or What Can We Learn about Democracy from the Athenians?
MAREK WĘCOWSKI How to keep the power with the people?
Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class
DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?
Some Games in Greek and Latin
THE FUN of playing in the Classical tradition.
Thucydides’ Trap: Are the USA and China today’s Athens and Sparta?
EDMUND STEWART Is another Peloponnesian War really in the offing?
Riding with Phaethon
PHILIP HARDIE How one man's fall still illuminates the world.
In Praise of Parsing
JOHN CLAUGHTON Let Latin be Latin.
Everything Flows, or Does It? Heraclitus on Everything.
SJOERD VAN HOORN Piecing together ancient philosophy from the flux of fragments.
A.E. Housman and Miss A.M.B. Meakin: A Star Pupil in Victorian London
CHRISTOPHER STRAY Unpublished letters between Housman and a remarkable female pupil.
Polite Emails to the Ancients: Winners and Runners-Up
THE MESSAGES The Ancients didn't want to hear...
Roads and Bricks: Why study the Romans?
ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE What does it mean when the Romans are within touching distance?
Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome
RICHARD HUTCHINS What did the Epicurean poet Lucretius make of nature versus nurture?
Mere Child’s Play? Comparing Greek Myth with Fairy Tale
ATHINA MITROPOULOS Did Greek myth ever think of the children?
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English and Greek
A.E. HOUSMAN / D.S. RAVEN Forging a Greek tragedy from English comedy.
Mary and Minerva: Symbolic Protest and the Destruction of Female Beauty
ENLLI LEWIS Does Medusa have a more positive tale to tell?
The Man who Translated the Bible into Latin
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The exciting business of being Jerome
Did Amazons roam Ancient Rome?
ADRIENNE MAYOR The captivating case of Camilla.
Classical Place-Names and the American Frontier
DANIEL KOCH Who lives in a town like Tully?
Antigone the Opera
EDWARD NESBIT Transforming Greek tragedy into modern opera.
What ever happened to Rhetoric? Cicero revisited
THOMAS DEGIROLAMI Could a Roman orator help heal our modern discourse?
The Battle of the Classics: The Humanities without Humanism
ERIC ADLER Do universities serve the interests of the Humanities?
Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation
MIRIAM KAMIL Why is harming trees a human taboo?
Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.
MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?
Painting for Classicists: Classicism, Antiquity and Nicolas Poussin
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Do Classicists in art galleries really know the answers?
What do you fear most? Tyranny and the Polis
EDMUND STEWART Tyranny comes in many forms.
Centiens adsentiens: Antigone’s semestral survey
ANTIGONE Rounds up the first six months.
Epigraphomania in Ottoman Lands: Richard Chandler and the Epigraphic Obsession
ROBERT PITT It's hard to keep calm when the writing's on the wall.
From Big Digs to Small Things Forgotten: the Past, Present, and Future of Classical Archaeology
ULRIKE KROTSCHECK Our ever-evolving engagement with Greco-Roman material culture.
Afghanistan, its pasts and futures.
LLEWELYN MORGAN Hope from history?
Coldplay, Achilles, and Spiderman
BRIAN THENG How does ancient heroism chime with 21st-century romance?
In praise of Frank M. Snowden, Jr: a personal tribute
LINDSAY JOHNS Celebrating the most influential Black Classicist of the 20th century.
Education in the cave, or: What imprisons us?
SARA AHBEL-RAPPE How can Classics help those behind bars?
Tres Leones: Singing Three Lions in Latin
PEDILUDIUM domum redit?! (Edit: non.)
The Philosophical Life: The Value of Diogenes Laertius’ Biographies
SPENCER KLAVAN Don't discount Diogenes' Lives.
Antigone introduces Anna Julia Cooper, Mother of Black Classical Education
ANIKA PRATHER Where heroines of Greek myth and American education overlap.
What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?
NICHOLAS SWIFT Can we really hear the ancients speak?
Jesus Christ: the ‘Vitruvian Man’ on the Cross
PABLO IRIZAR What connects depictions of Christ's crucifixion to the pre-Christian world?
Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale
MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did the Ancient Greeks crack the code of cryptography?
Robert Wood and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Search’ for Troy
LESLEY FITTON How to look for Troy when you think there's nothing to find?
Celebrity Athletes in Ancient Greece: Go Hard or Go Home(r)
MICHAEL PLOWDEN-ROBERTS Milo of Croton, Europe's first sporting superstar?
The Enduring Appeal of the Stoics
JOHN SELLARS Why the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius still resonate.
Love and the Soul: the timeless tale of Cupid and Psyche
STEPHEN HARRISON The rich afterlife of Latin literature's most enduring fable.
Plato’s Cave, Narnia’s Wardrobe: How to Escape the Zeitgeist
EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.
“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?
Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale
DAVID BUTTERFIELD Because dolor sit amet.
The Romance of Ruins
IAN JENKINS and CELESTE FARGE What can we learn from Classical tourists of the 18th century?
Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life
CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.
Mourning Howard Classics
ANIKA PRATHER Why the loss of one Classics department would be such a loss for the discipline.
Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man and the Measure of All Things
PABLO IRIZAR What lies behind the world's most famous sketch?
Greeks, Romans, Monks, and Murder: the Chaotic History of Football in Britain
Episodes from the riotous tale of how football came to be.
The Ghost of Classics Yet to Come
STEPHEN FRY Classics is dead; long live Classics!
Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL The rich rewards of reading between - and beneath - the lines of ancient texts.
Catullus on the Cover: Sparrows Go Cheap
ISOBEL WILLIAMS The challenge of illustrating the poems of Catullus.
What is Philosophy? The Islamic Reception of a Greek Idea
FITZROY MORRISSEY What did the "Philosopher of the Arabs" make of Plato?
Hell-to-men? Helen and Her Magic Names
ELŻBIETA WESOŁOWSKA What should we call the most enigmatic figure in Greek literature?
Tacitus on the Thrill of Writing
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Why we write, according to Rome's greatest historian.
Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency
ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: A Fair and Honest Peace
ANDREW DAVID IRVINE Who has the last laugh in wartime comedy?
Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation
FRISBEE SHEFFIELD How to have a debate and, whatever the result, come out of it better.
Virgil’s First Eclogue: No Idyll
SEB HYAMS Has rural bliss always been a sham?
Asebeia? An Outsider’s Claim on the Classics
TULLY WILLIAMS Where to start with Classics when you haven't got a map?
Two Concepts of Free Speech, from Classical Athens to Today’s Campus
JAMES KIERSTEAD How Ancient Greek practice can help bridge the university divide.
An Aaful Story: Ovid and the Geordie Spider
CORA BETH FRASER Finding familiarity in the tangled web of Ovid's Arachne.
Cui bono? In Search of Useful Latin
JESSICA GLUECK Uncovering the American mission to teach "Vocational Latin".
A Classic Mistake: Ceding Greece to the Ancient Greeks
KATHERINE KELAIDIS How to study the Ancient Greeks without forgetting those that came after.
Homer on Paying Attention
ALEX PETKAS Odyssean focus on the epic journey home.
A Showman’s Odyssey
MILLY AYERS An inspiring journey into Classics.
First Thoughts on the “New Naso”
CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso
Numismatic Notes on Naso’s Nose
NUMISMATISTS on the New Naso
Retracing the Old Steps of the New Naso: Authorship, Transmission and Reception
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI on the New Naso
Eating Yourself Empty: Erysichthon and the Environment
ROBERT SANTUCCI How can an ancient myth help us understand ecological disaster?
Field of Dreams: Schliemann’s Excavation of Troy
HARRY HUDSON What do archaeologists find when they dig deep with epic confidence?
Being Truly Alive: Plotinus on Mindfulness
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What being in the moment meant for a Platonic philosopher.
Nose Knows Best: How Latin tricks Italians
ALTHEA SOVANI If you think we Italians have it easy when it comes to Latin, think again!
Words from the Ghosts: Awakening Indo-European Philology
J. S. UBHI How a language spoken long before the Greeks and Romans can help us speak to them.
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?
How to be a Classical scholar – and a woman – in the fifteenth century
JOSEY PARKER The remarkable story of Isotta Nogarola (1419-66)
Caesars and Sopranos: the Shadow of Suetonius
TOM HOLLAND Ancient proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Why We Need Antigone
EDMUND STEWART To forge a vision for the future, look back to learn from the past.
