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.
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Antigone Turns Three
HAPPY BIRTHDAY To our wee website!
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A Life in Byzantium: Ten Questions with Averil Cameron
DAME AVERIL CAMERON Discusses her Byzantine career
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The First Lady of American Classics: Remembering Edith Hamilton
JESSE RUSSELL On a true populariser of Classics
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Homer in the Byzantine Classroom: Eustathios of Thessaloniki and John Tzetzes
BAUKJE VAN DEN BERG Reading Homer in Constantinople
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Stasis: Conflict, Revolution, and Compromise in the Greek Polis
MAREK WĘCOWSKI How to handle political dissent?
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A Greek Grammar in Armenian
ROBIN MEYER What could possibly go wrong?
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To Stand in Heaven: the Prologue to John’s Gospel
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI In the beginning was the Word
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Aeschylus’ Prometheus Unbound: Rebuilding a Lost Masterpiece
CAREY JOBE On a great, but vanished, tragedy
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Banish the Big Liars: Epicurus on True Pleasure
KRYSTYNA BARTOL The distorting mirror of ancient critics
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My Long Strange Trip to Aristophanes’ Gerytades
A.M. JUSTER Restores a long-lost comedy
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I Need a Job: Competition Runners-up
THE RUNNERS-UP To our biggest contest yet
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I Need a Job: Competition Winners
WHO GOT THE JOB In our latest contest?
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Cracking the Code of Linear B
THEODORE NASH A heroic tale of decipherment
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Long Live the Snake: Cleopatra’s Poison
LORENZO SENECI Venomous herpetology in the ancient world
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Naughty Noses and Pompous Pricks: Laurence Sterne’s Laughable Latin
MARK WALKER When Latin gets playful
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I Need A Job: The 9th Antigone Competition
WE WANT YOU To sell your ancient skills
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Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain
AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN On the weird world of Niatirb.
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The Parthenon/Elgin Marbles Debate: Return or Retain?
TISTA AUSTIN & ARMAND D’ANGOUR Just what should be done?
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An Invitation into Antiquity
ANAND MANGAL From modern tech to ancient text
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Bringing Dionysus to Life: A Story of Revelry and Outcasts
EMILY WENDT On translating Euripides Bacchae
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Classicism in the Romantic Era IV: The Revenge of Classicism?
J.S. BOPARAI Maistre the master artist?
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Classicism in the Romantic Era III: Stendhal, the Classical Romantic
J.S. BOPARAI Stendhal, Napoleon and the search for heroes.
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The Abuse of History: Rory Stewart’s Caesar
T.P. WISEMAN On a recent BBC docudrama
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Submarine Springs of Antiquity
R.A. MAGUIRE The wonder of hidden water sources
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Classicism in the Romantic Era II: Chateaubriand, the Romantic Classicist
J.S. BOPARAI Why read Chateaubriand?
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Classicism in the Romantic Era I: Was Stendhal Right about the Classical Tradition?
J.S. BOPARAI How to define a ‘classic’
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Witches and the “Weaker Sex”
JOHN GODWIN Female powerplay in Latin poetry
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Beyond the Teutoburg: The Life of Publius Quinctilius Varus
JO BALL Varus, before it all went wrong
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Circe, Odysseus and the Disclosure of Hermes
STEPHEN PIMENTEL Circe the shaman?
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Cornelia: A ‘Good’ Roman Woman?
ATHINA MITROPOULOS More than Mater Gracchorum
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Greek Intellectual Life under the Roman Empire
CHARLES FREEMAN Did Roman rule suppress Greek genius?
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How Would Virgil Speak in Chinese?
WENTAO ZHAI The Aeneid in Chinese poetry
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How to Get a Job in Classical Athens: A Time-traveller’s Guide
EDMUND STEWART Finding work in the ancient metropolis
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Seneca’s Sinister Groves
KELLY ZACH Oedipus and Druidic dread
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When Greece and Egypt Collide: Hellenic Hymnic Papyri
MARC-THILO GLOWACKI The catalysis of cultural conflux
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Interview with a Gladiatrix
CAROLINE LAWRENCE Talks to a Roman reenactment legend
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Maciste the Magnificent
ART POMEROY The Classics in classic films
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The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win?
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI What animal inspires the good life?
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Off-beat Poetry: Rhythmic Games in Horace, Homer and Vergil
NICHOLAS STONE How to end a line in style
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The Last of the Greek Aoidoi: Jan Křesadlo’s Astronautilia
BEN BROADBENT A sci-fi epic in Homeric Greek
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Tragedy Beyond the Battlefield: Grief in Homer’s Iliad and WWI Poetry
SAFA MALIK Uniting female grief in Troy and Troyes
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High-Street Classics: Competition Winners
HOW DO WE CREATE BEAUTY On streets that do not seek it?
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The Abu Simbel Graffito: Carian Puzzle or Risky Pun?
ARMAND D’ANGOUR A Greek riddle on a pharaoh’s leg
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Between Pandemic and Democracy: What Antigone Can Teach Us
MAGDA ROMANSKA Ancient and modern civic struggles
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The Omega Book Prize
A NEW LITERARY PRIZE Of Olympian stature
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The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
JUSTIN STOVER & GEORGE WOUDHUYSEN Hunt one of the great lost books
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How Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon and Took Ariminum
ROBIN ALINGTON MAGUIRE On the choice that changed everything
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Freud Meets Homer
MARK ADAIR Odysseus’ Freudian hallucinations
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Who First Realised the Earth was Round?
JAMES HANNAM A world-changing discovery in Greece
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The Eye of the Bat: Truth in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
JONATHAN M. WRIGHT In search of ultimate truth
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Steering with Sophocles
THERESA RYDER Stumbling upon Classics after school
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Middle-Earth Songs: 50 Years After Tolkien
ANCIENT POEMS Of, and on, J.R.R. Tolkien
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High-Street Classics: The 8th Antigone Competition
WHAT CAN CLASSICS DO To make our shops more beautiful?
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Catullus, Periods 1 and 2
GAVIN McCORMICK Ancient poetry, modern readers
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War, Imperialism, and Democracy: Thucydides’ Ukrainian War
MAREK WĘCOWSKI What can we learn from the Peloponnesian War?
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Iter Romanum: A Roman Journey – in Britain
PETER HULSE Exploring Corners of Roman Britain
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The Fasces: Ancient Rome’s Most Dangerous Political Symbol
T.C. BRENNAN Rods, axes, and untrammelled power
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Stoicism in the Fourth Satire of Persius
KATERINA KOURTOGLOU Socrates and Alcibiades discuss the big questions
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Robert Southey and Rhyming Greek Grammar
CHARLOTTE MAY A Lake Poet curioso
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Antigone’s Most-Read Articles
AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!
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Why Translate Seneca?
An exchange between DANA GIOIA and MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI
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Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day
BIJAN OMRANI Visits the Oxford Ancient Languages Society.
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Mickiewicz in Greek and Latin
JERZY DANIELEWICZ & MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Putting the Polish Goethe in Classical dress.
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Ancient History is Happening Now: Jacek Bocheński and his Roman Trilogy
KATARZYNA MARCINIAK Celebrating a Classical trilogy.
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Victualling a Trireme: A Taste of Experimental Archaeology
R.A. MAGUIRE Did the Athenians Take the Biscuit?
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What Can We Learn from Seneca Today?
DAVID FIDELER and CRISTIAN PĂTRĂȘCONI How Stoicism still speaks to us.
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Homeric Hallucinations: Can AI Write Classics Essays?
CHARLES BAKER Is ChatGPT all bluff and bluster?
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The Politics of Punctuation: Changing History One Mark at a Time
FLORENCE HAZRAT Who decides how a sentence flows?
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A Poetic Jewel from Late Antiquity: Prudentius’ Psychomachia
PETER HULSE An epic battle of the soul.
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What Did Palaeo-European Peoples Write? Local Languages of the Western Mediterranean
GABRIELA DE TORD BASTERA Uncovering long-lost languages.
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Barbarism and its Discontents in Ancient and Modern Ukraine
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY Are barbarians in the eyes of the beholder?
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The Italian Job: Lucretius in the Renaissance
LUKE SLATTERY Did Lucretius really make the modern world?
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Coronation Verses: Vivat Carolus Rex
LATIN POEMS To mark a new King.
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The Joys and Perils of Keeping a Latin Diary
LEE LANZILLOTTA Talking to yourself in Latin helps!
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“No Pharaoh’s Daughter is Ever Given to Anyone”: Why Did Amasis Refuse Cambyses?
NICKY NIELSEN On the complexities of Egyptian marriage.
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Joining the Dots: A Musical Puzzle on an Ancient Vase
ARMAND D’ANGOUR What did this Greek painter mean?
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The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World
GISELLE ACOSTA Have attitudes to ink changed over millennia?
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What Cicero Should Have Done: The Catilinarian Conspiracy Revisited
R. A. MAGUIRE Could Cicero have avoided exile?
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What Did Aspasia Really Look Like?
FRANCES FORBES-CARBINES Portraying Pericles’ partner.
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Julius Caesar’s Last Words
J.S. UBHI Beware the Ides of March
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Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part II)
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why burn Greek and Latin down?
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Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part I)
WOLFGANG DE MELO On the value of translation.
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Biennium Beantium: Two Years of Antigone
WE ARE HAVING Plenty of fun.
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Commodus: Rome’s Problem Child?
DAN BILLINGHAM Finding the man behind the myth.
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Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s ‘Meghnadbadh Kabya’.
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The Ancient Boundaries of Classics
DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The rich interaction between Greece and Thrace.
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Classical Culture in British India, Part II: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet and Classicist
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The poet who brought Latin and Greek into Bengali literature.
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Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.
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What Colour are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL On verbal polychromy.
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Classical Culture in British India, Part I: The Bengal ‘Renaissance’
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI How Latin and Greek came to influence poetry in Calcutta.
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Helena, Julian and Attila: The Twilight of Rome in 20th-century Fiction
EDMUND RACHER Rome’s Recessional in the novels of Burgess, Waugh and Vidal.
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Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation: A Personal View
COME WATCH THE BBC at its most ambitious.
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The Roman Army’s Trusty Vultures: The World’s First Banded Birds
ADRIENNE MAYOR When birds join the war effort.
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Socrates Redux: Antigone Competition Winners
SOCRATES RETURNS To speak truth to power.
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Uncancelling Tiberius
JOHN ROTH What made Augustus’ successor go so very wrong?
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Socrates Redux: Runners-up in the 7th Antigone Competition
THE BRILLIANT NEAR-MISSES in our latest contest
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Classically-themed Paintings, Courtesy of AI
GIOVANNI LIDO Artificial intelligence paints the ancients.
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Tempora Mutantur: Two Decades as a Classics Librarian
CHARLOTTE GOODALL Change and continuity in Classics collections.
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The Last Night of Troy: The Helen Episode in Aeneid 2
PETER HULSE Who would cut an epic episode?
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Antigone: An Open Forum For Classics
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.
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