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.
Articles
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Herodotus on Christmas in 20th-Century Britain
AN ANCIENT HISTORIAN
On the weird world of Niatirb.![]()
Socrates Redux: The 7th Antigone Competition
ANTIGONE COMPETITION
Does Socrates Shock or Tease?![]()
Objects of Worship: A Japanese Journey in Ancient Religion and Modern Experience
THIERRY RICHARDS
Kanzo Uchimura and the message of St Paul.![]()
Close Encounters of the Fishy Kind; or Oppian’s Maritime World
KRYSTYNA BARTOL
The secret society of Ancient Greek fish.![]()
The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda
ALAN BOWMAN
The Romans of Britannia speak again.![]()
Larkin in Latin
OXFORD POETS
Put Philip Larkin in Classical dress.![]()
Classics and Māori Culture in New Zealand: Sir Apirana Ngata
SIMON PERRIS
Classical currents in New Zealand waters.![]()
Sponsian: Another Lost Emperor
ALFRED DEAHL
How (not) to mould a fake emperor.![]()
The Classic Classic? Antigone Hits 250
DIVERS HANDS
What is *your* favourite Greek or Roman text?![]()
The Old School of Classics and the New
R.Y. TYRRELL
An 1880s satire for 2020s Classics?![]()
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part III
J.S. BOPARAI
Why a modern novelist became Classical.![]()
The Ends of History
MICHAEL BONNER
The decline and fall of declinism?![]()
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part II
J.S. BOPARAI
Trinidad’s greatest novelist explores the ruins.![]()
Theophrastus on the Philologist: The Lost Character Sketch
?THEOPHRASTUS?
An ancient anthropologist on the modern Classicist.![]()
V.S. Naipaul, Latin Literature and Ancient Rome: Part I
J.S. BOPARAI
On a Classic Novelist’s Classical Education in Trinidad.![]()
Civil Disobedience: A Puzzle in Plato’s Crito
ED LAMB
How Socrates inspired Martin Luther King Jr.![]()
How to Argue with Ted Turner’s Dad
GAVIN McCORMICK
Why bother studying Classics?![]()
Ad Fontes: When in Roman…
ANGHARAD DERBYSHIRE
Why does text look like it does?![]()
The Newcastle Scholarship
ETON CLASSICS
Testing times.![]()
Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole
JOHN ROTH
What can we learn from Regulus?![]()
A Tour of London’s Greek Temples
EDMUND STEWART
Greek revival on the streets of London.![]()
O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past
ANTIGONE
Digs out papers from a different era.![]()
When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament
DECLAN McCARTHY
What are the rules of divine translation?![]()
Living Descendants of Mark Antony
THEODORE KOPALIANI
Lifting a 2,000-year-old veil.![]()
Jurassic Marc: Adventures in Decoding Cicero’s Consolation
MIKE FONTAINE
How to fake like a genius.![]()
Was Apuleius a Witch?
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI
When wandering scholars go rogue.![]()
Divine Impossibilities: The Winners
ANTIGONE
Announces the victors!![]()
Vice versificata: Poetry in the Remaking
STEPHEN COOMBS
What matters in verse translation?![]()
Classical Christian Education and Classics: What’s in a Name?
JOSEY WRIGHT
How can two traditions combine?![]()
Domitian II – the Lost Roman Emperor
ALFRED DEAHL
When coins make history.![]()
Eating and Living in Ancient Rome
TOMASZ SAPOTA
Getting your fill in Latin literature.![]()
The War that Made the Roman Empire: An Interview with Barry Strauss
BARRY STRAUSS
Revisiting the Battle of Actium.![]()
Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact
CLARE CHANG
Helios shines again on the screen.![]()
The First Cricket Match Report: Goldwin’s In Certamen Pilae
WILLIAM GOLDWIN
Cricket 1700-style.![]()
Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem
WOLFGANG DE MELO
Why do languages have weird forms?![]()
A Serious Reckoning with the Past of Classical Studies
ERIC ADLER
Isn’t justice blind?![]()
Carmina De Regina Nostra: Latin Poems in Honour of Queen Elizabeth II
Three Latin odes.
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Stop Talking: An Epigram of Palladas
E.J. HUTCHINSON
Hot takes: an old, cold take.![]()
Will the Wise Man get Drunk? An Ancient Philosophic Controversy
JOHN DILLON
Does the Sage know when to stop?![]()
Whatever Happened to Caecilius?
PETER HULSE
Caecilius est in alio loco!![]()
What You Need to Build a Greek Temple
EDMUND STEWART
How hard can it be? Answer: very.![]()
Divine Impossibilities: The 6th Antigone Competition
What to do with topsy-turvy gods?
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Energy from Elegy: What Did the Greeks Use Elegiac Poetry for?
KRYSTYNA BARTOL
Verse for all seasons.![]()
What Sort of Thing is a Socrates?
ALEXANDRA BARO
Philosophy is not a spectator sport.![]()
Epic Potery: Drinking with the Ancients
DAVID BUTTERFIELD
Go hard or go Homer.![]()
One Thinks of Homer: Oliver St John Gogarty and James Joyce
TOM MORAN
Joyce’s epic conflict with a friend-turned-enemy.![]()
Learning Foreign Languages in Antiquity: How Did They Do It?
ELEANOR DICKEY
Multilingual learning before Duolingo.![]()
Metre and Writer
STEPHEN COOMBS
Latin poetry as a living art form.![]()
“Grind never stops”, or The Life and Work of Isaac Casaubon
TOM KEELINE
A window into the life of the hardest-working Classicist.![]()
Requiem for Latin Classes
JAN KWAPISZ
On Latin as a lifeline in learning.![]()
A Field Guide to Greek Metre
CARLO G. CARLUCCI
The best book ever written.![]()
Forms of Conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone: Part II
ELTON BARKER
When Tragedy tears itself apart.![]()
Forms of Conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone
ELTON BARKER
When tragedy tears itself apart.![]()
The Man Who Invented Syphilis: Splendours and Miseries of Neo-Latin Literature
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI
Frolicking with Fracastoro.![]()
The Dewsbury Plaque revisited
(LIONEL SCOTT)
What on earth is a temporary bus stop?![]()
Classics in Slices: Scattered Thoughts on Interpolation-Criticism
GABRIELE ROTA
What happens when readers become writers?![]()
What did Classics do to Christianity?
SIMON GOLDHILL
The constant collision of rival worldviews.![]()
Castaway: Souls, Survival and Sand-grains in Horace Odes 1.28
ANNE HARDY
Hearing the voice of the vanished.![]()
Horror in the Service of Stoic Philosophy: Seneca’s Medea
DAGMAR KIESEL
Facing the furor of filicide.![]()
Biblical Intertextuality: The Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant
JAN KOZŁOWSKI
Hidden threads in the Gospel of Luke![]()
The Fate of Aristotle’s Library
LUCIANO CANFORA
Did Aristotle’s books found the Library of Alexandria?![]()
American Argonauts (or, What Jason did next)
PETER HULSE
Finding yourself in a Neo-Latin fantasy.![]()
Polybius of Megalopolis: History Isn’t Always Written by Victors
GEORGINA LONGLEY
The trials of a captive historian.![]()
Bassani’s Cemeteries: the Ancient Etruscans and the Jews of Ferrara
GAVIN McCORMICK
The solemn power of ancient memory.![]()
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Oresteia and a Question of Matricide
FROMA ZEITLIN
Greek Tragedy and the Prince of Denmark.![]()
Classics and Freedom in the Younger Europe
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI
Adam Mickiewicz on fighting tyranny![]()
Sing to me, Muse: The Power of Museums
SAM ANDERSON
Bringing the textbooks to life.![]()
Classics in UK Universities: cui bono?
DAVID BUTTERFIELD
Where are we going with all this?![]()
Shakespeare’s Latin and Greek
TOM MORAN
A monumental misunderstanding of literature?![]()
Gilbert Highet, the First Celebrity Classicist
ROBERT J. BALL
What does it mean to promote Classics to the public?![]()
The Ecstasy and the Agony: Mania, Manhood and Misery in Catullus 63
ANNE HARDY
The strangest poem in Latin literature?![]()
Murray and Dodds and Page (oh my!): On the Pleasure and Value of Wissenschaftsgeschichte
THEODORE NASH
Hellenistic Warfare in Inter-war Oxford.![]()
More Modern Latin Poetry
FINDING NEW WAYS
To play with Latin verse.![]()
Homer’s Scythian Readers
J.S. UBHI
How did myths tour the ancient world?![]()
Rock Music
GREGORY HUTCHINSON
Hitting the hard stuff in Classical literature.![]()
Crosswords in Latin
PAUL McKENNA
Cruciverba quaedam Romana.![]()
To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI
Segal and Weil on how to live and love.![]()
Hit the Ode, Flacc: the 5th Antigone Competition Winners
PUTTING HORACE TO MUSIC
Got you going![]()
Latin with an Accent
WOLFGANG DE MELO
The Romans on how to speak proper.![]()
A Short History of Envy
DAVID KONSTAN
What turned the Greeks and Romans green.![]()
Shug Days: Cracking a 270-year-old Epigraphical Mystery
JACK MITCHELL
Eight letters you can’t get out of your head.![]()
Scholiastic Triumphs: Insights from Ancient Iliadic Readers
CHARLIE BAKER
How did ancient scholars explain the greatest Greek epic?![]()
Hit the Ode, Flacc! The Fifth Antigone Competition
THE NEW HORACE
is about to drop!![]()
Aeneas in Cossack-land: Kotliarevsky’s Ukrainian Eneida
ANATOLY GRABLEVSKY
The poem that put Ukraine on the map.![]()
Why Compare Greek and Latin?
JOSHUA T. KATZ
The first line of Latin literature has some answers.![]()
Hunting the Hortensius, Cicero’s Lost Protreptic
JUDITH STOVE
Can we resurrect the spirt of a long-lost Roman book?![]()
Lamia, Sirens, and Female Monsters: Feminist Reframings of Classical Myth in 19th-Century Literature
NINA TRIARIDOU⠀
New voices for ancient stories.![]()
Gellius in Antonine Society
LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS⠀
The manifold joys of Roman miscellanea.![]()
The Writing’s on the Wall: Reading Roman Graffiti
JERRY TONER⠀
Who writes on a house like this?![]()
A Fantasy of Justice: Revenge and the Other in Greek Tragedy
JANEK KUCHARSKI
What do legendary “barbarians” reveal about Ancient Greek beliefs?![]()
Socially Awkward Data: Studying Ancient Sociolinguistics
ROBIN MEYER
By Pollux, curse these particles!![]()
Suburani: Writing a New Latin Reading Course
LAILA TIMS
How to create a new world for Latin learners?![]()
Catullus: Foul-mouthed Genius?
JOHN GODWIN
How to make art from obscenity?![]()
It Starts with Homer: Writing a Classics Curriculum
SAM ANDERSON
How to inspire a new generation of Classicists when time is tight?![]()
Cultural Landmark for Sale: the Classical Treasures of Rome’s Casino dell’Aurora
COREY BRENNAN
Explore the world’s most expensive home.![]()
The Paper Anniversary: Antigone’s First Year
ANTIGONE
Gives a birthday speech.![]()
The Joy of a Humorless Stoic – Publius Rutilius Rufus
ALEX PETKAS
Finding joy in a life full of embarrassment.![]()
Communicating Classics: How Social Media Helps Create Classicists
MOLLY WILLETT
How to share the Greeks and Romans far and wide.![]()
Beyond the Metropolis? The Roman Town of Interamna Lirenas
ALESSANDRO LAUNARO
Are buried towns really left behind?
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Antigone: An Open Forum For Classics
[First posted in AWOL 23 May 2021, updated 28 December 2022]
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