History of scholarship Archives – Antigone

“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.

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.

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?

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.

Antigone introduces Anna Julia Cooper, Mother of Black Classical Education

Posted on 6th July 20217th July 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, The Classical Tradition

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

Reading Greek Literature with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Posted on 19th May 202122nd April 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History

EDWARD M. HARRIS Surveying slavery in Ancient Greece through the lens of pre-Civil-War America.

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)