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Category: The Classical Tradition
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CHRISTOPHER STRAY Unpublished letters between Housman and a remarkable female pupil.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
ANTIGONE 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.
Why a New Edition of The Golden Ass?
PETER SINGER Apuleius' amazing novel and animal rights in the Roman Empire.
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.