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2025

Rhodopis, the Courtesan Who Annoyed Sappho original ↗

31 Jan 2025

How to Live Metaphysics? Plotinus on Contemplation original ↗

26 Jan 2025

From Soul to Soul: Voices from Antiquity original ↗

23 Jan 2025

2024

The Practical Case for Studying Latin original ↗

30 Dec 2024

LatinGate: A Teacher’s Lament original ↗

22 Dec 2024

Shield of Dreams: the 11th Antigone Competition original ↗

21 Dec 2024

Spring in Midwinter: Mozart’s Et incarnatus est original ↗

20 Dec 2024

Spending a Day with Philoctetes: Dio Judges the Great Tragedians original ↗

8 Dec 2024

Claudian’s Battle of the Giants original ↗

6 Dec 2024

Antigone and the Pharos Foundation original ↗

27 Nov 2024

Valerius Flaccus’ Best Ecphrasis original ↗

24 Nov 2024

Oration on Quintilian and Statius’ Silvae original ↗

23 Nov 2024

Why Read Lesser Writers? Politian on Silver Latin Literature original ↗

23 Nov 2024

Opposite Day in Ancient Rome original ↗

16 Nov 2024

Machines or Mind? The Essay that Launched the Loebs original ↗

6 Nov 2024

On Not Keeping Our Mouth Shut: Plato and Father Popiełuszko original ↗

3 Nov 2024

When Venus Returns: Horatian Echoes in Hjalmar Söderberg’s The Serious Game original ↗

31 Oct 2024

Conquering Sign: Staging Constantine original ↗

27 Oct 2024

Sappho’s Inner Monologue original ↗

26 Oct 2024

Singular Adventures in Plurality original ↗

25 Oct 2024

A.E. Housman’s Introductory Lecture, 1892 original ↗

13 Oct 2024

The Old Gods Return: The Strange Story of Pagan Revivals original ↗

11 Oct 2024

Ancient Artillery original ↗

6 Oct 2024

When Did the Roman Empire Fall?original ↗

29 Sept 2024

I Sing Of What I Love: The Winners original ↗

29 Sept 2024

I Sing of What I Love: Runners-Up original ↗

28 Sept 2024

I Sing of What I Love: The 10th Antigone Competition original ↗

21 Jul 2024

The Triumphs of Julius Caesar: Mantegna and the Classical Spirit original ↗

20 Jul 2024

When a Blind Man Cries: Oedipus’ Revenge in Statius’ Thebaid original ↗

19 Jul 2024

Classics and Christians in the 12th Century original ↗

7 Jul 2024

Keeping the Latin Mass Alive original ↗

6 Jul 2024

What the UK General Election Could Mean for Classics Education original ↗

1 Jul 2024

Lucretius revisited: Ancient Wisdom in the AI Age original ↗

23 Jun 2024

Roamin’ Algeria original ↗

16 Jun 2024

Connecting Ancients and Moderns: An Interview with Livio Zerbini original ↗

8 Jun 2024

Virgil in Sarmatia: Latin Epic in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth original ↗

6 Jun 2024

Hadrian’s Villa and its Treasures original ↗

2 Jun 2024

Analysing Centaurs, Nymphs, and Gods: Carl Jung and Friedrich Creuzer original ↗

1 Jun 2024

Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education original ↗

25 May 2024

The Unfamiliar Name: T.S. Eliot on Hercules and the Pentecost original ↗

19 May 2024

Agesilaus: The Greatest of the Spartans?original ↗

18 May 2024

The Crab: Facing Cancer in Greco-Roman Antiquity original ↗

17 May 2024

The Mysterious Demetrios Moschos: Renaissance Scribe, Poet, Scholar original ↗

11 May 2024

Latitudinous Homeric Alliteration original ↗

6 May 2024

Seeing the Invisible: The Experience of Subordinates in Ancient Greece original ↗

27 Apr 2024

This Is How We Become Godlike: Marcus Aurelius and His Monuments original ↗

25 Apr 2024

Dante, with and without Virgil original ↗

21 Apr 2024

Epic Echoes in Derek Walcott’s Omeros original ↗

20 Apr 2024

Why We Need the Tragic: Schiller, Cassandra and the Rebirth of Tragedy original ↗

15 Apr 2024

Beyond LSJ: How to Deepen Your Understanding of Ancient Greek original ↗

9 Apr 2024

Syrinx and the Sirens: From Ancient Greece to Etruria original ↗

2 Apr 2024

Vacancies original ↗

1 Apr 2024

Plato the Prophet? The Crucified Just Man in the Republic and New Testament original ↗

31 Mar 2024

Violins Singing in Latin: The Seven Last Words of Christ original ↗

28 Mar 2024

How Not to Comment on the Classics original ↗

17 Mar 2024

Antigone Turns Three original ↗

10 Mar 2024

A Life in Byzantium: Ten Questions with Averil Cameron original ↗

10 Mar 2024

The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton original ↗

3 Mar 2024

Homer in the Byzantine Classroom: Eustathios of Thessaloniki and John Tzetzes original ↗

2 Mar 2024

Stasis: Conflict, Revolution, and Compromise in the Greek Polis original ↗

24 Feb 2024

A Greek Grammar in Armenian original ↗

18 Feb 2024

To Stand in Heaven: the Prologue to John’s Gospel original ↗

17 Feb 2024

Aeschylus’ Prometheus Unbound: Rebuilding a Lost Masterpiece original ↗

10 Feb 2024

Banish the Big Liars: Epicurus on True Pleasure original ↗

4 Feb 2024

My Long Strange Trip to Aristophanes’ Gerytades original ↗

3 Feb 2024

I Need a Job: Competition Runners-up original ↗

30 Jan 2024

I Need a Job: Competition Winners original ↗

29 Jan 2024

Cracking the Code of Linear B original ↗

18 Jan 2024

Long Live the Snake: Cleopatra’s Poison original ↗

14 Jan 2024

Naughty Noses and Pompous Pricks: Laurence Sterne’s Laughable Latin original ↗

10 Jan 2024

2023

I Need A Job: The 9th Antigone Competition original ↗

24 Dec 2023

Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain original ↗

24 Dec 2023

The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles Debate: Return or Retain?original ↗

17 Dec 2023

An Invitation into Antiquity original ↗

16 Dec 2023

Bringing Dionysus to Life: A Story of Revelry and Outcasts original ↗

16 Dec 2023

Classicism in the Romantic Era IV: The Revenge of Classicism?original ↗

16 Dec 2023

Classicism in the Romantic Era III: Stendhal, the Classical Romantic original ↗

15 Dec 2023

The Abuse of History: Rory Stewart’s Caesar original ↗

14 Dec 2023

Submarine Springs of Antiquity original ↗

10 Dec 2023

Classicism in the Romantic Era II: Chateaubriand, the Romantic Classicist original ↗

7 Dec 2023

Classicism in the Romantic Era I: Was Stendhal Right about the Classical Tradition?original ↗

7 Dec 2023

Witches and the “Weaker Sex”original ↗

3 Dec 2023

Beyond the Teutoburg: The Life of Publius Quinctilius Varus original ↗

30 Nov 2023

Circe, Odysseus and the Disclosure of Hermes original ↗

26 Nov 2023

Cornelia: A ‘Good’ Roman Woman?original ↗

18 Nov 2023

Greek Intellectual Life under the Roman Empire original ↗

11 Nov 2023

How Would Virgil Speak in Chinese?original ↗

10 Nov 2023

How to Get a Job in Classical Athens: A Time-traveller’s Guide original ↗

5 Nov 2023

Seneca’s Sinister Groves original ↗

31 Oct 2023

When Greece and Egypt Collide: Hellenic Hymnic Papyri original ↗

28 Oct 2023

Interview with a Gladiatrix original ↗

26 Oct 2023

Maciste the Magnificent original ↗

21 Oct 2023

The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win?original ↗

18 Oct 2023

Off-beat Poetry: Rhythmic Games in Horace, Homer and Vergil original ↗

15 Oct 2023

The Last of the Greek Aoidoi: Jan Křesadlo’s Astronautilia original ↗

13 Oct 2023

Tragedy Beyond the Battlefield: Grief in Homer’s Iliad and WWI Poetry original ↗

8 Oct 2023

High-Street Classics: Competition Winners original ↗

4 Oct 2023

The Abu Simbel Graffito: Carian Puzzle or Risky Pun?original ↗

30 Sept 2023

Between Pandemic and Democracy: What Antigone Can Teach Us original ↗

28 Sept 2023

The Omega Book Prize original ↗

24 Sept 2023