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'On the Antonine pedestal, the main agent of the ascent is Aion (time/age/eternity), personified at centre stage, all-powerful...The focus on Aeon, in addition, connects the familial to the eternal.' By Judith Stove. antigonejournal.com/2024/04/marcus…

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'In the early 1700s a young man wrote a lively Latin poem of 95 hexameters on nothing but cricket. This piece In Certamen Pilae (On the Ball Contest) is glossed as 'Anglice, A Cricket-Match'. It's the first explicit account of how this sport was played.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/09/certam…

'We are, psychologically, exactly the same as people in Rome 2,000 years ago. We suffer from the same kinds of hopes, fears, greed, ambition, and addictions the ancient Romans experienced... Seneca explores all of this.' What can we learn from him today?
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'Among the Vindolanda tablets we find fragments, perhaps writing exercises, of Latin literature of the highest level, including lines of Vergil's Aeneid and Georgics, as well as by far the earliest known examples of what we believe to be Latin shorthand.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/12/vindol…

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'Counting sand-grains is, in any case, a futile endeavour. The implication is that Archytas, a man with an outwardly impressive CV, actually achieved little. It is not immediately clear why Horace would choose to belittle a famous man in this way.'
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'We are, psychologically, exactly the same as people in Rome 2,000 years ago. We suffer from the same kinds of hopes, fears, greed, ambition, and addictions the ancient Romans experienced... Seneca explores all of this.' What can we learn from him today?
antigonejournal.com/2023/06/learni…

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Virginia Woolf paused writing Mrs Dalloway to craft her essay 'On not knowing Greek', whose cunning title cloaks her intense passion for Ancient Greek and its literature. To mark its centenary, we reprint that essay, along with another philhellenic piece:
antigonejournal.com/2023/01/on-not…

'Fracastoro is most famous today for quite literally writing the book on syphilis. It is not merely a book either: it's an epyllion (or short epic poem) in the Alexandrian manner... It combines all the best and the worst elements in Neo-Latin literature.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/06/neo-la…

'Counting sand-grains is, in any case, a futile endeavour. The implication is that Archytas, a man with an outwardly impressive CV, actually achieved little. It is not immediately clear why Horace would choose to belittle a famous man in this way.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/06/castaw…

'Fracastoro is most famous today for quite literally writing the book on syphilis. It is not merely a book either: it's an epyllion (or short epic poem) in the Alexandrian manner... It combines all the best and the worst elements in Neo-Latin literature.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/06/neo-la…

The Writing’s on the Wall: Reading Roman Graffiti antigonejournal.com/2022/03/roman-… via Roman History

Virginia Woolf paused writing Mrs Dalloway to craft her essay 'On not knowing Greek', whose cunning title cloaks her intense passion for Ancient Greek and its literature. To mark its centenary, we reprint that essay, along with another philhellenic piece:
antigonejournal.com/2023/01/on-not…

Among the great Roman historians few would name Sextus Aurelius Victor of the 4th century AD. His short work De Caesaribus (On the Caesars) does not impress. But what if there was a huge lost work behind that? Here's a piece that goes digging for answers: antigonejournal.com/2023/09/lost-h…

Homer's poetry is a wonderful mix of ancient epic formulae and the ingenious verbal and rhythmical play of a single mastermind. Part of its complexity comes through the use of alliteration and assonance, within and between verses, as Jeffrey Duban reveals: antigonejournal.com/2024/05/latitu…

The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded, revealing the life of the Myceneans in technicolour: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…