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This year we launched the biggest and hardest competition in Classical philology. The judges worked through a million words of commentary. The quality was eye-wateringly strong. Here are the winners of our inaugural competition! More facts to follow soon: antigonejournal.com/2026/09/…
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"What is the use of Greek and Latin literature? I have to answer this in a very few pages: therefore I must be dogmatic. But I shall say nothing I am not prepared to prove, in detail, against any challenge: in most cases I have the proof already written." antigonejournal.com/2024/11/…
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Plato’s "Apology" records Socrates’ most famous declaration as he stood before the Athenian jury: "The unexamined life is not worth living." But what could he possibly have meant?
In this short clip, Dr Butterfield reflects on the enduring force of Socrates’ claim. Watch the full conversation on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=gXzcnZX0…
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100 years ago: the BA Classics exam at the University of London. You have 3 hours, closed book, to answer 5 questions. Alongside the compulsory qn 1, what would you choose?
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100% humanities scholars have destroyed the reason for what they do by neglecting the business of stewarding beauty, creating citizens and cultivating virtue in favour of the driest sort of archivism and pseudo-empiricism
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"Aristotle is not merely the most important ancient philosopher, and not merely the most important philosopher of all time; Aristotle is the single most important human being ever to have lived."
A punchy claim! If you're not convinced, who would you say?
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It's been some time since I last read this. But it really is a spectacular reappraisal of what true freedom really means. And as an inaugural lecture!
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“Philosophy, if it meant anything at all to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, was intended for the gymnasium, the city square, the chaotic home, the prison cell, the life in exile, and anywhere else a person needed fortifying for the difficulties of life.” @AntigoneJournal antigonejournal.com/2026/10/…
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Do philosophers even lift? The separation of physical exercise and academic thought is a common contemporary assumption. But, as Connor Livingston argues in our latest article, for the Ancient Greeks, wrestling and debating were fundamentally intertwined: antigonejournal.com/2026/10/…
At least the consolation from all the AI chaos and confusion and cybercrime is that this audacious technological progress is making humans happier, right?
Right?
Or, if not, why will it at all?
Do philosophers even lift? The separation of physical exercise and academic thought is a common contemporary assumption. But, as Connor Livingston argues in our latest article, for the Ancient Greeks, wrestling and debating were fundamentally intertwined: antigonejournal.com/2026/10/…
It's been some time since I last read this. But it really is a spectacular reappraisal of what true freedom really means. And as an inaugural lecture!
RT @amjuster: Lucan was prolific at an early age, but Nero's damnatio memoriae destroyed most of his work, except for this epic.
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"Scholars have suggested that in the imperial period Stoicism was what might be called a “textual community” – a group of people scattered around the ancient Mediterranean all reading the same books. But which books?" antigonejournal.com/2026/06/…
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“The book is the single most revolutionary tool ever to fall into human hands.”
Read “Bound by the book,” by David Butterfield.
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"Scholars have suggested that in the imperial period Stoicism was what might be called a “textual community” – a group of people scattered around the ancient Mediterranean all reading the same books. But which books?" antigonejournal.com/2026/06/…