ALFRED DEAHL How (not) to mould a fake emperor.
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.
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?
Looking for Antinous
CAROLE RADDATO The immortal image of Hadrian's lost love.
Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted
ANDREW BEER The genuine pleasure of yielding to better arguments.
Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophy: Moral Lessons from Antiquity for the Modern World
MARTIN FERGUSON SMITH How would the Epicureans and Stoics face Covid-19?
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.
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.
The Ghost of Classics Yet to Come
STEPHEN FRY Classics is dead; long live Classics!
Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation
FRISBEE SHEFFIELD How to have a debate and, whatever the result, come out of it better.
Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle
ANIKA PRATHER What would a Greek philosopher make of how you choose your friends?
