Antigone is a new and open forum for Classics in the twenty-first century.
Our articles
will dust down the Ancient Greeks and Romans and bring them into fresh
conversation with modern-day readers of all ages. We are fascinated by
and passionate about Graeco-Roman antiquity and wish to introduce as
many people as possible to its thrills and its spills, its charms and
its challenges.
Classics is an
enormously rich and varied discipline: we are committed to sharing, in
an intelligent and accessible form, the joys of ancient languages,
literature, history, philosophy, religion, art and architecture.
Antigone is an experiment in open learning. We wish to debate complex issues with balance and nuance. We encourage
feedback and constructive criticism from our readers, as well as ideas
for articles that will continue the conversation. In particular, we
welcome possible answers to questions that we cannot answer ourselves.
Our aim is always to encourage curiosity, foster discussion and find our
collective way through the labyrinth of ideas, without knowing where
exactly we will end up.
Most importantly, the contributors to Antigone are
united by a love of Classics. To be sure, not every idea from Classical
antiquity deserves to be defended, and we enthusiastically invite
critical analysis of those that may be wrong. On the whole, however, our
writers do seek to uphold and promote ideals that held sway thousands
of years ago: open enquiry, robust debate and the unfettered exploration
of ideas.
Our guidelines for contributors can be found here, and our launch press release here.
We are still in the process of allocating editorial roles based upon
time available, and look forward to saying more as soon as we can.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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