Antigone 
Andrew Beer Writing recently in the Atlantic, Victoria Parker describes a defect of argumentative generosity in our political discourse.[1]“Conservatives and Liberals Are Wrong About Each Other,” The Atlantic. Partisans of either side of the culture war attribute to their political … Read more
Orlando Gibbs Cicero advises that explaining a joke kills it. I am going to ignore his advice and try to write about what the Romans found funny: where did their sense of humour converge with, and diverge from, ours? Looking … Read more
Nicholas Swift Students who enroll in their first Latin course – or maybe find themselves placed there quite against their will – begin their studies with a survey of the alphabet. They are often surprised to find that lowercase letters … Read more
Antigone Pity poor Hegelochus. This Ancient Greek actor once provoked unexpected laughter during the premier of the Euripidean tragedy Orestes in 408 BC. What was so funny? In a lapse of concentration, he unwittingly delivered a line where the expected … Read more
Chad Bochan Start reading about the Athenian philosopher Socrates (c. 470–399 BC), and you will probably be filled with all sorts of questions. He provokes a reaction: critical, comical, challenging, infuriating, Socrates forged a public image, kindled a public reaction, … Read more