MICHAEL BONNER The decline and fall of declinism?
Category: Top 20
Our 20 most read pieces, since Antigone launched in March 2021. They appear in random order.
Living Descendants of Mark Antony
THEODORE KOPALIANI Lifting a 2,000-year-old veil.
The War that Made the Roman Empire: An Interview with Barry Strauss
BARRY STRAUSS Revisiting the Battle of Actium.
Will the Wise Man get Drunk? An Ancient Philosophic Controversy
JOHN DILLON Does the Sage know when to stop?
What You Need to Build a Greek Temple
EDMUND STEWART How hard can it be? Answer: very.
What did Classics do to Christianity?
SIMON GOLDHILL The constant collision of rival worldviews.
Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek
TOM MORAN A monumental misunderstanding of literature?
Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted
ANDREW BEER The genuine pleasure of yielding to better arguments.
Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take
WOLFGANG DE MELO How did the Romans handle gender?
No Laughing Matter? What the Romans Found Funny
ORLANDO GIBBS The Fun and Farce of Plautus and Terence
What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?
NICHOLAS SWIFT Can we really hear the ancients speak?
Ancient Cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan Scytale
MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did the Ancient Greeks crack the code of cryptography?
The Enduring Appeal of the Stoics
JOHN SELLARS Why the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius still resonate.
“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?
Ancient Greek Accents in Ten Rules
GREEK ACCENTS Really aren't so complex.
Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life
CHAD BOCHAN How to have conversations that lead to actual answers.
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre
DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.
The Ghost of Classics Yet to Come
STEPHEN FRY Classics is dead; long live Classics!
Money Talks: A Very Short History of Roman Currency
ALFRED DEAHL What have Roman coins done for us?
Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle
ANIKA PRATHER What would a Greek philosopher make of how you choose your friends?