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One of the great passages of the Iliad in my view: Iris, disguised as Laodice, stirs Helen from her weaving by news that Paris and Menelaus are to fight over her in a duel. This is her first appearance in the war and the poem her beauty stirred.

"Sappho ought to be appreciated as an early philosopher, indeed as a founding figure of genuine orginality in this nascent field. Within the intellectual context of Ionia, she is influenced by the driving questions of the Presocratics." Sappho philosopha: antigonejournal.com/2021/10/sappho…

Latest arrival, from the incomparable Pico and the beautiful I Tatti. The 23-year-old's 900 Conclusions, augmented by 946 notes 😍😅

Odysseus, Trauma and Identity in Homer and Pasolini’s The Return antigonejournal.com/2025/05/odysse… via @antigonejournal

Memoria y olvido, actualidad de dos mil cuatrocientos años de antigüedad. Por cosas como ésta la cultura clásica no debe desaparecer del curriculo educativo.

Antigone Journal One of my happy memories was obtaining a subscription for the I Tatti for my library all those years ago. Loved watching it grow.

Lovely to stumble across the timetable for the 1946 summer gathering of the Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching, when it really believed in the existential importance of that mission and was driven by a post-war optimism, inside the great book of the Direct Method cause.

"My interest in the ancient world goes back almost as far as I can remember. The first eye-opening moment was visiting the British Museum aged five with my mother: I wanted to see, in the Egyptian Galleries, a piece of carbonised bread or cake." antigonejournal.com/2022/01/vision…

“We shall be grateful to those who bring along copies of Latin songs or chanties. A copy of Horace should also be brought.” My kind of party.

I *think* I've just purchased from Denmark a book I've been looking for since I was nineteen (and I'm nearly forty)... but won't believe it until I see it in the longed-for third dimension...

Antigone Journal Cast thy nighted colour off and let thine eye looke like a Friend on Denmarke

GRR Antigone Journal What an excellent essay on the return of Odysseus. Plaudits to the author and as always, to Antigone Journal for such splendid offerings

Henryk Elzenberg, one of the great philosophers of 20th-century Poland, has never been translated into another language. Today, he makes that leap, with his profoundly learned and moving essay on Lucretius and materialism, translated by one of our team: antigonejournal.com/2025/06/lucret…