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Category: The Classical Tradition

The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World

Posted on 18th March 202319th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

GISELLE ACOSTA Have attitudes to ink changed over millennia?

What Did Aspasia Really Look Like?

Posted on 16th March 202316th March 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

FRANCES FORBES-CARBINES Portraying Pericles' partner.

Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta

Posted on 5th March 20235th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt's 'Meghnadbadh Kabya'.

Classical Culture in British India, Part II: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet and Classicist

Posted on 1st March 20231st March 2023 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The poet who brought Latin and Greek into Bengali literature.

Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance

Posted on 26th February 202326th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.

Classical Culture in British India, Part I: The Bengal ‘Renaissance’

Posted on 23rd February 20235th March 2023 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition

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

Posted on 19th February 202319th February 2023 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND RACHER Rome's Recessional in the novels of Burgess, Waugh and Vidal.

Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation: A Personal View

Posted on 17th February 202317th February 2023 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition

COME WATCH THE BBC at its most ambitious.

Uncancelling Tiberius

Posted on 11th February 202311th February 2023 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN ROTH What made Augustus' successor go so very wrong?

Classically-themed Paintings, Courtesy of AI

Posted on 5th February 20236th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

GIOVANNI LIDO Artificial intelligence paints the ancients.

Tempora Mutantur: Two Decades as a Classics Librarian

Posted on 4th February 20235th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

CHARLOTTE GOODALL Change and continuity in Classics collections.

The Last Night of Troy: The Helen Episode in Aeneid 2

Posted on 1st February 20231st February 2023 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE Who would cut an epic episode?

On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923)

Posted on 29th January 20235th February 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

VIRGINIA WOOLF On the magic of Greek literature.

Never-ending Crisis: The History of the Socratic Problem

Posted on 26th January 202326th January 2023 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

OTTO LINDERBORG Will the real Socrates please stand up?

The Power of Reason: Benedict XVI and the Classics

Posted on 24th January 202330th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI A Pope's devotion to Latin and Greek.

How to be an Aristotelian

Posted on 19th January 202321st January 2023 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN SELLARS The most important human ever to have lived?

On Aging, On Friendship: Cicero’s De Senectute

Posted on 15th January 202315th January 2023 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM Life lessons from Cicero.

The Value of Secondary-School Latin: A Student’s View

Posted on 13th January 202313th January 2023 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

PATRICK HOMES What brings pleasure in the classroom?

Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain

Posted on 24th December 202224th December 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.

Objects of Worship: A Japanese Journey in Ancient Religion and Modern Experience

Posted on 11th December 202220th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, The Classical Tradition

THIERRY RICHARDS Kanzo Uchimura and the message of St Paul.

Larkin in Latin

Posted on 3rd December 20224th December 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

OXFORD POETS Put Philip Larkin in Classical dress.

Classics and Māori Culture in New Zealand: Sir Apirana Ngata

Posted on 30th November 202230th November 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition

SIMON PERRIS Classical currents in New Zealand waters.

Sponsian: Another Lost Emperor

Posted on 27th November 202218th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

ALFRED DEAHL How (not) to mould a fake emperor.

The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250

Posted on 22nd November 202223rd November 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

DIVERS HANDS What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?

V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part III

Posted on 19th November 202219th November 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

J.S. BOPARAI Why a modern novelist became Classical.

V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part II

Posted on 13th November 202219th November 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

J.S. BOPARAI Trinidad's greatest novelist explores the ruins.

Theophrastus on the Philologist: The Lost Character Sketch

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

?THEOPHRASTUS? An ancient anthropologist on the modern Classicist.

V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part I

Posted on 9th November 202214th November 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

J.S. BOPARAI On a Classic Novelist's Classical Education in Trinidad.

Civil Disobedience: A Puzzle in Plato’s Crito

Posted on 6th November 20229th November 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ED LAMB How Socrates inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

How to Argue with Ted Turner’s Dad

Posted on 4th November 20225th November 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

GAVIN McCORMICK Why bother studying Classics?

Ad Fontes: When in Roman…

Posted on 3rd November 20223rd November 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE Why does text look like it does?

The Newcastle Scholarship

Posted on 30th October 20221st November 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition

ETON CLASSICS Testing times.

Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole

Posted on 29th October 202229th October 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

JOHN ROTH What can we learn from Regulus?

A Tour of London’s Greek Temples

Posted on 26th October 202227th October 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART Greek revival on the streets of London.

O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past

Posted on 23rd October 202224th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.

When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament

Posted on 22nd October 20225th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

DECLAN McCARTHY What are the rules of divine translation?

Living Descendants of Mark Antony

Posted on 19th October 20227th November 2022 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

THEODORE KOPALIANI Lifting a 2,000-year-old veil.

Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation

Posted on 16th October 202217th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

MIKE FONTAINE How to fake like a genius.

Vice versificata: Poetry in the Remaking

Posted on 8th October 20228th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

STEPHEN COOMBS What matters in verse translation?

Classical Christian Education and Classics: What’s in a Name?

Posted on 6th October 20226th October 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JOSEY WRIGHT How can two traditions combine?

Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact

Posted on 27th September 202227th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

CLARE CHANG Helios shines again on the screen.

The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin’s In Certamen Pilae

Posted on 25th September 202226th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

WILLIAM GOLDWIN Cricket 1700-style.

Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem

Posted on 23rd September 202211th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO Why do languages have weird forms?

A Serious Reckoning with the Past of Classical Studies

Posted on 20th September 202226th September 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ERIC ADLER Isn't justice blind?

Carmina De Regina Nostra: Latin Poems in Honour of Queen Elizabeth II

Posted on 17th September 202218th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

Three Latin odes.

Whatever Happened to Caecilius?

Posted on 11th September 202211th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE Caecilius est in alio loco!

Tagged Education, Sculpture

Energy from Elegy: What Did the Greeks Use Elegiac Poetry for?

Posted on 30th July 202214th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

KRYSTYNA BARTOL Verse for all seasons.

Tagged Elegy

One Thinks of Homer: Oliver St John Gogarty and James Joyce

Posted on 21st July 202231st August 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM MORAN Joyce's epic conflict with a friend-turned-enemy.

Tagged Homer

Metre and Writer

Posted on 16th July 20228th October 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

STEPHEN COOMBS Latin poetry as a living art form.

Tagged Metre

“Grind never stops”, or The Life and Work of Isaac Casaubon

Posted on 14th July 202215th July 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

TOM KEELINE A window into the life of the hardest-working Classicist.

Tagged History of scholarship

Requiem for Latin Classes

Posted on 12th July 202212th July 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JAN KWAPISZ On Latin as a lifeline in learning.

Tagged Education

The Man Who Invented Syphilis: Splendours and Miseries of Neo-Latin Literature

Posted on 30th June 20221st July 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Frolicking with Fracastoro.

Tagged Neo-Latin

Classics in Slices: Scattered Thoughts on Interpolation-Criticism

Posted on 25th June 202220th December 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

GABRIELE ROTA What happens when readers become writers?

Tagged interpolation, Textual criticism

What did Classics do to Christianity?

Posted on 23rd June 20227th August 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

SIMON GOLDHILL The constant collision of rival worldviews.

Tagged Christianity

Biblical Intertextuality: The Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant

Posted on 16th June 202216th June 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

JAN KOZŁOWSKI Hidden threads in the Gospel of Luke

Tagged Intertextuality, The Bible

The Fate of Aristotle’s Library

Posted on 14th June 202215th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

LUCIANO CANFORA Did Aristotle's books found the Library of Alexandria?

Tagged Aristotle, Libraries

American Argonauts (or, What Jason did next)

Posted on 11th June 202230th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE Finding yourself in a Neo-Latin fantasy.

Tagged Argonautica, Neo-Latin

Bassani’s Cemeteries: the Ancient Etruscans and the Jews of Ferrara

Posted on 7th June 20227th June 2022 by Antigone in History, The Classical Tradition

GAVIN McCORMICK The solemn power of ancient memory.

Tagged Etruscans

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Oresteia and a Question of Matricide

Posted on 4th June 20225th June 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

FROMA ZEITLIN Greek Tragedy and the Prince of Denmark.

Tagged Aeschylus, Oresteia, Shakespeare

Classics and Freedom in the Younger Europe

Posted on 2nd June 20222nd June 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Adam Mickiewicz on fighting tyranny

Tagged Poland

Sing to me, Muse: The Power of Museums

Posted on 31st May 202231st May 2022 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

SAM ANDERSON Bringing the textbooks to life.

Tagged Education, Museums

Classics in UK Universities: cui bono?

Posted on 28th May 202219th August 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics, Top 20

DAVID BUTTERFIELD Where are we going with all this?

Tagged Education, Universities

Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek

Posted on 26th May 20222nd October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

TOM MORAN A monumental misunderstanding of literature?

Tagged Shakespeare

Gilbert Highet, the First Celebrity Classicist

Posted on 24th May 20227th November 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 202231st May 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

THEODORE NASH Hellenistic Warfare in Inter-war Oxford.

Tagged History of scholarship, 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.

Tagged Neo-Latin, Verse composition

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?

Tagged Comparative Linguistics, Homer, Scythia

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 20221st September 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.

Tagged Homer

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.

Tagged Linguistics

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.

Tagged Epigraphy

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?

Tagged Homer, Scholia

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.

Tagged Ukraine, Virgil

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?

Tagged Cicero

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 202220th February 2023 by Antigone in Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

COREY BRENNAN Explore the world's most expensive home.

Tagged Art history

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.

Tagged Homer

Ukraine’s Island of Heroes

Posted on 27th February 202230th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

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

Tagged Achilles, Ukraine

Versus de Scachis: When Chess Reached Europe

Posted on 26th February 202211th June 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE A monkish poem on the game of kings.

Tagged Chess, Medieval Latin

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.

Tagged Linguistics

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?

Tagged Plato, Politics

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.

Tagged Antinous, Hadrian

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.

Tagged Homer, Song

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.

Tagged Codes

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.

Tagged Architecture, Art history

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?

Tagged Cicero, Latinity

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.

Tagged Julius Caesar, Warfare

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?

Tagged France, Virgil

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.

Tagged Roman Emperors

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?

Tagged Medicine

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?

Tagged Ovid

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?

Tagged Christianity

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?

Tagged Education, Linguistics

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.

Tagged Athenaeus

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?

Tagged Athens

Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class

Posted on 11th December 20216th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, The Classical Tradition

DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?

Tagged Cambridge, History of scholarship

Some Games in Greek and Latin

Posted on 9th December 202124th February 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

THE FUN of playing in the Classical tradition.

Tagged Neo-Latin, Verse composition

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?

Tagged Athens, China, Sparta, USA

Riding with Phaethon

Posted on 27th November 202127th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

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

Tagged Ovid

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.

Tagged Education

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.

Tagged Heraclitus

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.

Tagged Housman

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?

Tagged Archaeology

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?

Tagged Lucretius

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?

Tagged Myth

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.

Tagged Housman, Verse composition

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 202117th February 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, History, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The exciting business of being Jerome

Tagged Jerome, The Bible

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.

Tagged Amazons, Rome

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?

Tagged USA

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.

Tagged Music, Sophocles

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?

Tagged Cicero, Rhetoric

The Battle of the Classics: The Humanities without Humanism

Posted on 28th September 20217th November 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ERIC ADLER Do universities serve the interests of the Humanities?

Tagged Education

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?

Tagged Myth, Nature

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?

Tagged Textual criticism

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?

Tagged Art history, France

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.

Tagged Politics, Tyranny

Centiens adsentiens: Antigone’s semestral survey

Posted on 10th September 202116th December 2022 by Antigone in The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

ANTIGONE Rounds up the first six months.

Tagged Editorial

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.

Tagged Epigraphy

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.

Tagged Archaeology

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?

Tagged Afghanistan

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?

Tagged Homer, Music

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.

Tagged History of scholarship

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?

Tagged Education, Plato

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.)

Tagged Music, Neo-Latin

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.

Tagged Diogenes Laertius

Antigone introduces Anna Julia Cooper, Mother of Black Classical Education

Posted on 6th July 202113th March 2023 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

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

Tagged Education, History of scholarship, Sophocles

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?

Tagged Linguistics

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?

Tagged Christianity

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?

Tagged Codes, Sparta

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?

Tagged Troy

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?

Tagged Sport

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.

Tagged Stoicism

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.

Tagged Apuleius

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

Posted on 16th June 202130th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

EDMUND STEWART How Classics can help us leave the cave.

Tagged Plato

“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?

Tagged Translation

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.

Tagged Neo-Latin

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.

Tagged Socrates

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.

Tagged Education, USA

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?

Tagged History of art, Vitruvius

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

Posted on 27th May 20214th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Literature, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

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

Tagged Medieval Latin, Neo-Latin, Sport1 Comment

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!

Tagged Education3 Comments

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.

Tagged Manuscripts1 Comment

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.

Tagged Art history, 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?

Tagged Islam

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?

Tagged Euripides, Homer

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.

Tagged Tacitus

Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency

Posted on 3rd May 202118th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?

Tagged Numismatics, Rome1 Comment

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?

Tagged Aristophanes

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.

Tagged Socrates3 Comments

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?

Tagged Pastoral, Virgil

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?

Tagged Education, Outreach

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.

Tagged Athens, Education1 Comment

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.

Tagged Ovid

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".

Tagged Education

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 November 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

ALEX PETKAS Odyssean focus on the epic journey home.

Tagged Homer1 Comment

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.

Tagged Education, Outreach1 Comment

First Thoughts on the “New Naso”

Posted on 1st April 20216th October 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

CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso

1 Comment

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?

Tagged Nature, Ovid

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?

Tagged Archaeology, Troy

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.

Tagged Plotinus

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!

Tagged Linguistics, Translation1 Comment

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.

Tagged Comparative Linguistics1 Comment

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?

Tagged Aristotle2 Comments

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

Posted on 12th March 202129th May 2022 by Antigone in Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

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

Tagged Aristotle3 Comments

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.

Tagged Historiography, Roman Emperors, Suetonius1 Comment

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)

Tagged History of scholarship, Italy, Neo-Latin

Why We Need Antigone

Posted on 10th March 20211st September 2022 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.

Tagged Russia, Sophocles, Tyranny
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