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Category: The Classical Tradition

Gilbert Highet, the First Celebrity Classicist

Posted on 24th May 202224th May 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

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

Posted on 19th May 202219th May 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

THEODORE NASH Hellenistic Warfare in Inter-war Oxford.

More Modern Latin Poetry

Posted on 17th May 202217th May 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

FINDING NEW WAYS To play with Latin verse.

Homer’s Scythian Readers

Posted on 14th May 202214th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

J.S. UBHI How did myths tour the ancient world?

Rock Music

Posted on 12th May 202213th May 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

GREGORY HUTCHINSON Hitting the hard stuff in Classical literature.

Crosswords in Latin

Posted on 10th May 202211th May 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PAUL McKENNA Cruciverba quaedam Romana.

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.

Latin with an Accent

Posted on 3rd May 20224th May 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO The Romans on how to speak proper.

Shug Days: Cracking a 270-year-old Epigraphical Mystery

Posted on 28th April 202228th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

JACK MITCHELL Eight letters you can't get out of your head.

Scholiastic Triumphs: Insights from Ancient Iliadic Readers

Posted on 26th April 202226th April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

CHARLIE BAKER How did ancient scholars explain the greatest Greek epic?

Aeneas in Cossack-land: Kotliarevsky’s Ukrainian Eneida

Posted on 9th April 202210th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY The poem that put Ukraine on the map.

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?

Lamia, Sirens, and Female Monsters: Feminist Reframings of Classical Myth in 19th-Century Literature

Posted on 31st March 20223rd April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

NINA TRIARIDOU⠀ New voices for ancient stories.

Cultural Landmark for Sale: the Classical Treasures of Rome’s Casino dell’Aurora

Posted on 12th March 202226th March 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

COREY BRENNAN Explore the world's most expensive home.

Homer and the Power of Story-telling

Posted on 1st March 20221st March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

KATHARINE RADICE How stories can empower their tellers as much as their listeners.

Ukraine’s Island of Heroes

Posted on 27th February 202210th April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI How heroism on an island links the past and present.

Versus de Scachis: When Chess Reached Europe

Posted on 26th February 202226th February 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE A monkish poem on the game of kings.

What You See is What They Wrote? Thoughts on Latin Spelling

Posted on 24th February 202224th February 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO Orthography matters.

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?

Looking for Antinous

Posted on 19th February 20222nd March 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

CAROLE RADDATO The immortal image of Hadrian's lost love.

Singing in the Shadow of Homer

Posted on 17th February 202217th February 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOE GOODKIN Reawakening the Iliad blues.

Ancient Cybersecurity III: From Greek Fire-signalling to WWI Code-crafting

Posted on 12th February 202211th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Sending high-security secrets from far away.

Why Should We Save the Classical Tradition?

Posted on 10th February 20223rd March 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

RAFAŁ TOCZKO The ineluctable importance of the Greco-Roman legacy.

Cork Models of the Ruins of Rome

Posted on 5th February 20225th February 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ROLAND MAYER How Classical architecture became a portable luxury.

The Cult of Cicero: Have Latinists Been Brainwashed?

Posted on 3rd February 20225th February 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOSEY PARKER Must we talk like Cicero?

Julius Caesar and the Art of Hybrid War

Posted on 1st February 20222nd February 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

BIJAN OMRANI The guile and spin of Caesar's campaigns.

Vergil, Versailles and Us: the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns

Posted on 25th January 202225th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Did 17th-century French art and literature outshine the Classics?

Visions of Rome: An Interview with Mary Beard

Posted on 20th January 202220th January 2022 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

MARY BEARD Caesars, Statues, and Classics Now.

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?

The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham

Posted on 15th January 202216th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Classic wordplay from Classics-loving Tolkien.

Pygmalion Now? The Case of Sophia, the Humanoid Robot

Posted on 13th January 202213th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANNA DANIELEWICZ-BETZ What happens if Pygmalion's myth now becomes reality?

Can Music Help Your Latin?

Posted on 8th January 20229th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

GAVIN McCORMICK What can be learned from Ecclesiastical Latin?

Learning to Read and Write in Ancient Rome

Posted on 16th December 202116th December 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

ALBERTO REGAGLIOLO How did the Romans begin their children's education?

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.

After Pericles, or What Can We Learn about Democracy from the Athenians?

Posted on 14th December 202115th December 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

MAREK WĘCOWSKI How to keep the power with the people?

Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class

Posted on 11th December 202120th March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?

Some Games in Greek and Latin

Posted on 9th December 202110th December 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

THE FUN of playing in the Classical tradition.

Thucydides’ Trap: Are the USA and China today’s Athens and Sparta?

Posted on 4th December 20215th December 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART Is another Peloponnesian War really in the offing?

Riding with Phaethon

Posted on 27th November 202128th November 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PHILIP HARDIE How one man's fall still illuminates the world.

In Praise of Parsing

Posted on 25th November 202125th November 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JOHN CLAUGHTON Let Latin be Latin.

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.

A.E. Housman and Miss A.M.B. Meakin: A Star Pupil in Victorian London

Posted on 18th November 202127th November 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

CHRISTOPHER STRAY Unpublished letters between Housman and a remarkable female pupil.

Polite Emails to the Ancients: Winners and Runners-Up

Posted on 9th November 202111th November 2021 by Antigone in Competitions, The Classical Tradition

THE MESSAGES The Ancients didn't want to hear...

Roads and Bricks: Why study the Romans?

Posted on 4th November 20214th November 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE What does it mean when the Romans are within touching distance?

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?

Mere Child’s Play? Comparing Greek Myth with Fairy Tale

Posted on 30th October 202130th October 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ATHINA MITROPOULOS Did Greek myth ever think of the children?

Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English and Greek

Posted on 26th October 20214th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

A.E. HOUSMAN / D.S. RAVEN Forging a Greek tragedy from English comedy.

Mary and Minerva: Symbolic Protest and the Destruction of Female Beauty

Posted on 23rd October 202112th December 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ENLLI LEWIS Does Medusa have a more positive tale to tell?

The Man who Translated the Bible into Latin

Posted on 19th October 202119th October 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The exciting business of being Jerome

Did Amazons roam Ancient Rome?

Posted on 16th October 202119th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

ADRIENNE MAYOR The captivating case of Camilla.

Classical Place-Names and the American Frontier

Posted on 7th October 20218th October 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

DANIEL KOCH Who lives in a town like Tully?

Antigone the Opera

Posted on 5th October 20215th October 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

EDWARD NESBIT Transforming Greek tragedy into modern opera.

What ever happened to Rhetoric? Cicero revisited

Posted on 2nd October 20212nd October 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

THOMAS DEGIROLAMI Could a Roman orator help heal our modern discourse?

The Battle of the Classics: The Humanities without Humanism

Posted on 28th September 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics, Top 20

ERIC ADLER Do universities serve the interests of the Humanities?

Bleeding Trees in Ancient Myth and Modern Deforestation

Posted on 23rd September 202123rd September 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MIRIAM KAMIL Why is harming trees a human taboo?

Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.

Posted on 21st September 202125th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?

Painting for Classicists: Classicism, Antiquity and Nicolas Poussin

Posted on 18th September 20213rd January 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Do Classicists in art galleries really know the answers?

What do you fear most? Tyranny and the Polis

Posted on 14th September 202114th September 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART Tyranny comes in many forms.

Centiens adsentiens: Antigone’s semestral survey

Posted on 10th September 20216th December 2021 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ANTIGONE Rounds up the first six months.

Epigraphomania in Ottoman Lands: Richard Chandler and the Epigraphic Obsession

Posted on 2nd September 20212nd September 2021 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

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

Posted on 31st August 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ULRIKE KROTSCHECK Our ever-evolving engagement with Greco-Roman material culture.

Afghanistan, its pasts and futures.

Posted on 18th August 202119th August 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

LLEWELYN MORGAN Hope from history?

Coldplay, Achilles, and Spiderman

Posted on 24th July 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

BRIAN THENG How does ancient heroism chime with 21st-century romance?

In praise of Frank M. Snowden, Jr: a personal tribute

Posted on 17th July 202117th July 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

LINDSAY JOHNS Celebrating the most influential Black Classicist of the 20th century.

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?

Tres Leones: Singing Three Lions in Latin

Posted on 10th July 202112th July 2021 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition

PEDILUDIUM domum redit?! (Edit: non.)

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.

Antigone introduces Anna Julia Cooper, Mother of Black Classical Education

Posted on 6th July 20217th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ANIKA PRATHER Where heroines of Greek myth and American education overlap.

What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?

Posted on 3rd July 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

NICHOLAS SWIFT Can we really hear the ancients speak?

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?

Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale

Posted on 27th June 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did the Ancient Greeks crack the code of cryptography?

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

Posted on 26th June 20212nd July 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?

Celebrity Athletes in Ancient Greece: Go Hard or Go Home(r)

Posted on 23rd June 202123rd June 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

MICHAEL PLOWDEN-ROBERTS Milo of Croton, Europe's first sporting superstar?

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.

Love and the Soul: the timeless tale of Cupid and Psyche

Posted on 19th June 202119th June 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

STEPHEN HARRISON The rich afterlife of Latin literature's most enduring fable.

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

Posted on 16th June 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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 20212nd March 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

DAVID BUTTERFIELD Because dolor sit amet.

The Romance of Ruins

Posted on 9th June 20212nd September 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 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.

Mourning Howard Classics

Posted on 30th May 20212nd July 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.

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 202124th July 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 202130th April 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

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

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The Ghost of Classics Yet to Come

Posted on 21st May 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics, Top 20

STEPHEN FRY Classics is dead; long live Classics!

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Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures

Posted on 17th May 202129th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL The rich rewards of reading between - and beneath - the lines of ancient texts.

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Catullus on the Cover: Sparrows Go Cheap

Posted on 13th May 202114th May 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ISOBEL WILLIAMS The challenge of illustrating the poems of Catullus.

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?

Hell-to-men? Helen and Her Magic Names

Posted on 9th May 20219th May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ELŻBIETA WESOŁOWSKA What should we call the most enigmatic figure in Greek literature?

Tacitus on the Thrill of Writing

Posted on 7th May 20217th May 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Why we write, according to Rome's greatest historian.

Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency

Posted on 3rd May 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?

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Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: A Fair and Honest Peace

Posted on 29th April 202129th April 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

ANDREW DAVID IRVINE Who has the last laugh in wartime comedy?

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.

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Virgil’s First Eclogue: No Idyll

Posted on 27th April 202127th April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

SEB HYAMS Has rural bliss always been a sham?

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?

Two Concepts of Free Speech, from Classical Athens to Today’s Campus

Posted on 21st April 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

JAMES KIERSTEAD How Ancient Greek practice can help bridge the university divide.

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An Aaful Story: Ovid and the Geordie Spider

Posted on 19th April 202119th April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

CORA BETH FRASER Finding familiarity in the tangled web of Ovid's Arachne.

Cui bono? In Search of Useful Latin

Posted on 11th April 202115th July 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JESSICA GLUECK Uncovering the American mission to teach "Vocational Latin".

A Classic Mistake: Ceding Greece to the Ancient Greeks

Posted on 9th April 20219th April 2021 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

KATHERINE KELAIDIS How to study the Ancient Greeks without forgetting those that came after.

Homer on Paying Attention

Posted on 5th April 20215th April 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ALEX PETKAS Odyssean focus on the epic journey home.

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A Showman’s Odyssey

Posted on 4th April 20216th August 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

MILLY AYERS An inspiring journey into Classics.

First Thoughts on the “New Naso”

Posted on 1st April 202122nd January 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, Top 20

CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso

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Numismatic Notes on Naso’s Nose

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The New Naso

NUMISMATISTS on the New Naso

Retracing the Old Steps of the New Naso: Authorship, Transmission and Reception

Posted on 1st April 20212nd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition, The New Naso

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI on the New Naso

Eating Yourself Empty: Erysichthon and the Environment

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

ROBERT SANTUCCI How can an ancient myth help us understand ecological disaster?

Field of Dreams: Schliemann’s Excavation of Troy

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

HARRY HUDSON What do archaeologists find when they dig deep with epic confidence?

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.

Nose Knows Best: How Latin tricks Italians

Posted on 21st March 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

ALTHEA SOVANI If you think we Italians have it easy when it comes to Latin, think again!

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Words from the Ghosts: Awakening Indo-European Philology

Posted on 16th March 202129th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

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

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?

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

Posted on 12th March 202118th April 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

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

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How to be a Classical scholar – and a woman – in the fifteenth century

Posted on 10th March 202123rd September 2021 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOSEY PARKER The remarkable story of Isotta Nogarola (1419-66)

Caesars and Sopranos: the Shadow of Suetonius

Posted on 10th March 202115th September 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM HOLLAND Ancient proof that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Why We Need Antigone

Posted on 10th March 20212nd May 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

EDMUND STEWART To forge a vision for the future, look back to learn from the past.

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