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2026

The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology 2026: Winners original ↗

30 Sept 2026

Mithridatism and the Myth of Poison Immunity original ↗

27 Sept 2026

Socrates in the Street of the Marble Workers original ↗

21 Aug 2026

How Many Eyes Did Homer’s Cyclops Have?original ↗

19 Aug 2026

Odyscenes: The Twelve Best Bits of the Odyssey original ↗

3 Aug 2026

The American Odyssey original ↗

1 Aug 2026

Apocalypse Troy: Nolan’s Odyssey and the End of Civilization original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Was Homer’s Ithaca an Island?original ↗

4 Jul 2026

Rabelais’ Ancient Greek: An Epigram of 1524 original ↗

28 Jun 2026

Equality, from BC to DC original ↗

25 Jun 2026

Show Your Shelf: Library Special original ↗

20 Jun 2026

Calcidius the Latin Plato original ↗

7 Jun 2026

What Was Stoicism?original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Petrarch on Cities, Time, and Heraclitus original ↗

31 May 2026

Urban Satire: Juvenal 3 original ↗

24 May 2026

Flagellation and Cheese-stealing: the Spartan Cult at Artemis Orthia original ↗

24 May 2026

Books and the Western Tradition: Two Videos original ↗

23 May 2026

The Interpretation of Ancient Greek Literature original ↗

3 May 2026

Unshod Dido in Aeneid 4: Vergil and the Literary Transitive Property original ↗

2 May 2026

There is a Senate in London: Britain’s Classical 18th Century original ↗

1 May 2026

Arbor fulgida: The Origins of Tolkien’s Shining Tree original ↗

18 Apr 2026

Invoking the Gods: The Baffling Orphic Hymns original ↗

16 Apr 2026

Why Plato Matters Now: Heroism and Celebrity original ↗

12 Apr 2026

Antigone Celebrates Five Years: A Gallery original ↗

29 Mar 2026

The Artistry of ‘The Old Oligarch’original ↗

29 Mar 2026

Ten Rules for the 21st-Century Classicist original ↗

28 Mar 2026

Five Years of Antigone original ↗

15 Mar 2026

The Situation of Classics at the University of Ottawa and in Canada original ↗

13 Mar 2026

The Homer of Our Wars original ↗

1 Mar 2026

Tolkien’s Epic Allusions in Peter Jackson’s Films original ↗

1 Mar 2026

Prolegomena to Jane Harrison original ↗

28 Feb 2026

The Science of Blunders: Confessions of a Textual Critic original ↗

15 Feb 2026

The Trouble with Aristophanes original ↗

11 Feb 2026

The Ancient Greek Soul: A Guide for Modern Readers original ↗

10 Feb 2026

Epigram Trifariam: Winners of The 13th Antigone Competition original ↗

25 Jan 2026

There and Back Again: the Motif of Nostos in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Novels original ↗

25 Jan 2026

Philosophy and “Scientific” Tyranny in Plato’s Clitophon original ↗

24 Jan 2026

2025

How Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon and took Ariminum: Part II original ↗

21 Dec 2025

Epigram Trifariam: The 13th Antigone Competition original ↗

19 Dec 2025

Caesar in the Kremlin: Vladimir Putin’s Speeches in Latin original ↗

13 Dec 2025

When Democracy Dies: the Fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BC original ↗

12 Dec 2025

The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology original ↗

30 Nov 2025

The Afterwards of Justice: Hesiod, the Greeks, and Moon Knight original ↗

30 Nov 2025

The Fall of Smaug and the Heel of Achilles original ↗

23 Nov 2025

The Apostate in Antioch: Emperor Julian’s Civic Strife original ↗

16 Nov 2025

On The Living Language of the Greeks original ↗

15 Nov 2025

Rome’s Greatest Soldier? Spurius Ligustinus and the Roman Army in the Middle Republic original ↗

8 Nov 2025

In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice original ↗

2 Nov 2025

A Walk with Horace original ↗

1 Nov 2025

The Decline and Fall of Classical Rhetoric original ↗

30 Oct 2025

What’s the Point of Life? Aristotle and the New Academic Year original ↗

19 Oct 2025

Atomic Physics, Ancient and Modern original ↗

19 Oct 2025

Centenary Elegiacs for the Society of Hellenic Studies original ↗

17 Oct 2025

Homer among the Villagers: Christian Verse Inscriptions from the Anatolian Steppe original ↗

5 Oct 2025

Homeric Allusions in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit original ↗

3 Oct 2025

An Exceedingly Short Introduction to Roman Law original ↗

1 Oct 2025

Classical Scholarship: A Roving Commission original ↗

21 Sept 2025

New Latin Verse, Please: Reviving Vates original ↗

19 Sept 2025

Fatherly Virtue in The Roman and American Republic original ↗

16 Sept 2025

An Apology for Philology original ↗

6 Sept 2025

John Buchan at 150, in Latin original ↗

29 Aug 2025

O Tempora: Winners of the 12th Antigone Competition original ↗

24 Aug 2025

Are Those Marble Wigs? On Roman Hairstyles original ↗

20 Jul 2025

The Rise of Herod the Great original ↗

20 Jul 2025

My Road Trip to Meet Zeus: The Siwa Oasis and the Oracle of Ammon original ↗

18 Jul 2025

Asquith on the Classics original ↗

6 Jul 2025

The Mystery of the Portonaccio Sarcophagus original ↗

6 Jul 2025

More Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek Poems original ↗

1 Jul 2025

Shadowed Lands: The Greek Periphery in the Fiction of Mitchison and Lewis original ↗

22 Jun 2025

Lucretius and the Religion of Materialism original ↗

22 Jun 2025

The House Always Wins: Boethius, Cicero and the Gamble of Fate original ↗

15 Jun 2025

O Tempora: The 12th Antigone Competition original ↗

8 Jun 2025

Flickering Light in Rome’s ‘Little Dark Age’: Towards a Literature of the 3rd Century original ↗

7 Jun 2025

On Staging a New Medea – and its Sequel original ↗

4 Jun 2025

Odysseus, Trauma and Identity in Homer and Pasolini’s The Return original ↗

26 May 2025

Horace Odes 3.30 ‘Exegi Monumentum’: Wycombe Translation Initiative 2025 original ↗

26 May 2025

What Would Aeneas Do? Heroic Ideals in Homer, Virgil and Sun Wukong original ↗

25 May 2025

The Living Languages: Why Cambridge Needs Greek original ↗

11 May 2025

All the Small Things: Epicureanism, Then and Now original ↗

10 May 2025

Roman Restraint: Foreign Policy from Augustus to Tiberius original ↗

3 May 2025

Travels through Anatolia original ↗

27 Apr 2025

The Laughter of Paschal Grace original ↗

21 Apr 2025

The Wounded Surgeon: Socrates and Christ in T.S. Eliot’ East Coker IV original ↗

18 Apr 2025

The Cranes of Ibycus: Schiller, Ibycus and Divine Justice original ↗

13 Apr 2025

Mirror Reflection, Axes of Coordinates, and Homeric Grammar original ↗

8 Apr 2025

A Musical journey in Classical Myth: from Strauss’s Electra to Liszt’s Orpheus original ↗

3 Apr 2025

The Consolation of the Classics: War, Homecoming, and Memory original ↗

29 Mar 2025

Setting Euripides to Music original ↗

24 Mar 2025

Making Sense of Euripides’ Orestes original ↗

23 Mar 2025

Recreating Euripides’ Orestes original ↗

22 Mar 2025

Gladiators, Single Combat and Educating the Youth in Republican Rome original ↗

14 Mar 2025

Antigone’s 4th Birthday original ↗

11 Mar 2025

Where are the Women in Plato’s Symposium?original ↗

5 Mar 2025

The Winchester Greek List original ↗

2 Mar 2025

Shield of Dreams: Winners of the 11th Antigone Competition original ↗

1 Mar 2025

Where on Earth Have You Seen That?! Aulus Gellius on The Aeneid original ↗

26 Feb 2025

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” in Greek original ↗

23 Feb 2025

Unveiling Strength: An Exhibition on Women’s Physicality in Ancient Greece original ↗

16 Feb 2025

The First Universities? Ancient Greek Philosophical Schools original ↗

12 Feb 2025

Poetry from the Gods: The Mysterious Chaldaean Oracles original ↗

7 Feb 2025