EDMUND STEWART How hard can it be? Answer: very.
Category: Top 20
Our 20 most read pieces, since Antigone launched in March 2021. They appear in random order.
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?
Gilbert Highet, the First Celebrity Classicist
ROBERT J. BALL What does it mean to promote Classics to the public?
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?
Richard Porson: Scholar of a Different Class
DAVID BUTTERFIELD What is a working-class Classicist?
Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take
WOLFGANG DE MELO How did the Romans handle gender?
The Battle of the Classics: The Humanities without Humanism
ERIC ADLER Do universities serve the interests of the Humanities?
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.
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?
Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation
FRISBEE SHEFFIELD How to have a debate and, whatever the result, come out of it better.
First Thoughts on the “New Naso”
CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso
Understanding Friendship through the Eyes of Aristotle
ANIKA PRATHER What would a Greek philosopher make of how you choose your friends?
