Antigone Journal
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This is a great book: crisp, trenchant, profound, and important to all who find the leisure to read it. Ambiguous, therefore, that this copy was deaccessioned from the House of Commons Library...
Are Those Marble Wigs? On Roman Hairstyles antigonejournal.com/2025/07/roman-… Via @romanhistory1 🏛️
What timing! I visited Mycenae yesterday and have been thrilled to see original Linear B tablets at last. I’ve copied down a sign list and tried my hand at transcribing (if not quite translating) a few of those I saw. Now I want to find a good book on the decipherment.
A bit of fairly recent classical scholarship is outlined by @theo_nash 👇
The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded in the mid-20th century, revealing at last the life of the Mycenaeans in technicolour: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…
If you have to spend a year on a desert island with one single-volume, non-fiction (and non-religious) book, this seems an unbeatable contender, offering as it does not just curiosity but ten thousand pathways into your memory of the world that was. What might be other choices?
The Rise of Herod the Great antigonejournal.com/2025/07/rise-o… Professor Barry Strauss’s new book Jews vs. Rome, we chart Herod’s rise to power, when he befriended some of the most famous in ancient history – Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Octavian Book USA amzn.to/4jrUe7i Book UK…
Bureaucratisation, the intrusion of politics, and the loss of the ability to research and teach as and how one wants. These are the dangers to university culture set out in Lord Robbins' lecture "On Academic Freedom", written way back in 1966...
An amusing irony of our Brave New World of AI is that those academics who've made a living from treating a literary text as entirely divorced from its author - whose intention is meaningless - are now feeling a sudden need to rediscover the importance of the human who created it.
Different times indeed! Who, today, could get away with that remark about love and comprehension? But his point about Charlemagne is well made.
Further reading: Dio Chrysostom's "Encomium on Hair" and Synesius' rejoinder "Encomium of Baldness".
The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded in the mid-20th century, revealing at last the life of the Mycenaeans in technicolour: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…
A pacy account by Theo Nash!
The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded in the mid-20th century, revealing at last the life of the Mycenaeans in technicolour: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…
Yet another overview of Ancient Greek prepositions.
A century ago the serving British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, addressed the Classical Association as its President. His address is half about the importance of Greece and Rome for the state, half its importance for the individual. Different times eh!
Una lectura absolutament sensacional.
The astounding story of how that most fascinating of scripts, Linear B, was painstakingly decoded in the mid-20th century, revealing at last the life of the Mycenaeans in technicolour: antigonejournal.com/2024/01/deciph…