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Nov 30, 2025
Philology – a love of words – is at the heart of the Antigone project. And today, we're delighted to announce a major annual prize for Classical Philology. The winner takes home the *full* Loeb library, and £5,000. Please share this news, and do go visit:
The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology
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Aug 16
Would have stopped reading on finding the opening category to be "Pre 17th Century".
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Aug 15
The @Telegraph Fifty Greatest Books of All Time. I settle down for a pleasant half hour of silent disputation. Book the first. The Iliad. And in two short paragraphs, a serious factual error (there is no wooden horse in The Iliad) and a ridiculous, unmissable typo in the last
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Aug 11
A truly exceptional essay by @Tyler_A_Harper which encapsulates better than anything I have read the performative folly and collective collapse of US Higher Ed over the last decade:
Why I Quit the Tenure Track
From theatlantic.com
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Aug 7
When Gilbert Seldes' Lysistrata (1930) reached LA, a dozen policemen stormed the stage, arresting 53 cast members. Sadly the LAPD was unable to locate "the depraved playwright" listed as a person of interest on the arrest warrant: one Arthur Aristophanes."
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Aug 6
"For all his faults, Schliemann stimulated interest in a pre-Classical Greece which had previously been considered inherently inferior to its Classical descendent, and he gave archaeology an international platform from which it has continued to grow."
Field of Dreams: Schliemann's Excavation of Troy
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