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30 Nov 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: antigonejournal.com/2025/11/…
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Queria ler uma História da Guerra do Paraguai, por Tito Lívio, e uma História dos EUA, pelo Gibbon.
Name a book you'd love to read, if chronology didn't make that impossible. I'll start:
Plato, Mis-anthropikos (a dialogue exposing the artificial intelligence of AI)
Alexander, Napoleon: Born to Fail
Tacitus, The Court of Stalin
Sophocles, The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare
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Plautus, The Large Language Model
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Apuleius, The Remarkable Adventure of Pee-Wee
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Plutarch, Parallel Lives of De Gaulle and Churchill
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Caesius Bassus, On the Lyrics of Morrissey
Aesop, The Miser and the Tamagochi
Aristophanes, The Preppers
Lucian, Vice-Chancellor or the Sale of Knowledge
Name a book you'd love to read, if chronology didn't make that impossible. I'll start:
Plato, Mis-anthropikos (a dialogue exposing the artificial intelligence of AI)
Alexander, Napoleon: Born to Fail
Tacitus, The Court of Stalin
Sophocles, The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare
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Tacitus, Annals of Revolutionary France
Caesar, Commentaries on the Napoleonic/Second World War
Thucydides, History of the 30 Yrs War
Livy, A Republica Condita (about US history)
Plutarch, Modern Parallel Lives
Aristotle, On Evolution
Homer/Virgil, The Arthuriad
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Proclus, Commentary on the Ringstones of Wisdom
Proclus, On True Apokalypsis (commentary on the Book of Revelation)
Damascius, Responses to Deleuze
Aristotle, Kronian Stars (on modern physical stars and their peculiar "self thinking")
Leibniz, Monads and LLMs
Name a book you'd love to read, if chronology didn't make that impossible. I'll start:
Plato, Mis-anthropikos (a dialogue exposing the artificial intelligence of AI)
Alexander, Napoleon: Born to Fail
Tacitus, The Court of Stalin
Sophocles, The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare
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Name a book you'd love to read, if chronology didn't make that impossible. I'll start:
Plato, Mis-anthropikos (a dialogue exposing the artificial intelligence of AI)
Alexander, Napoleon: Born to Fail
Tacitus, The Court of Stalin
Sophocles, The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare
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Pindar, Difficulty in the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Homer, On the so-called Homeric Question.
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Suetonius, The Life of Jeffrey Epstein
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Otto von Bismarck: German History 1871-2030.
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Pindar: Hymn to Holy Theotokos.
Strabo: America's Geography
Cicero: Pro Galilaeo Oratio
Xenophon: On Cars.
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Noticing how important professional sports are in our society, undoubtedly the most succesful classic writer nowadays would be Pindar. He would be right now writing the Fifaworldcupian and the Enbieian Odes...
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Mira res! Libros de mythologia Graecorum et Romanorum quaerebam.
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Jun 12
As cultural gamechangers go, this book was right up there.
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Jun 12
"While at sea, the Amazons mutinied. Rising up against their Greeks captors, they 'hacked them down' (4.110) and took control of the ships. Unfortunately, only after they'd killed their captors did they realise that they had no idea how to steer a ship."
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