Antigone Journal
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An open forum for Classics—Ancient Greece, Rome, and their influence.
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John Keats had a life-long engagement with ancient art, using Classical myths (among them Endymion and Hyperion) to explore his philosophical concerns. His “Lamia” (1820) constitutes a subversive retelling of the ancient story recounted in Philostratus:
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'In the early 1700s a young man wrote a lively Latin poem of 95 hexameters on nothing but cricket. This piece 'In Certamen Pilae'=“On the ball contest” is glossed as “Anglice, A Cricket-Match”. It's the first explicit account of how this sport was played.'
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Antigone Journal Quod fuit esse quod est, quod non fuit esse, quod esse
Esse quod est non esse, quod est non est erit esse.
'What was being that is, became not being, that being
Being that is not being, that is, is not, will be into being.'
'We may wonder: would Pygmalion be pleased and even eager to purchase (or create) a personal humanoid robot, were he to witness the modern advancements of technology?' Hard to say. On how the Ovidian myth squares with the AI reality of 'Sophia the Robot':
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'In the early 1700s a young man wrote a lively Latin poem of 95 hexameters on nothing but cricket. This piece 'In Certamen Pilae'=“On the ball contest” is glossed as “Anglice, A Cricket-Match”. It's the first explicit account of how this sport was played.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/09/certam…
'To rid ourselves of the plague of false opinions about how to live our lives well we must turn to philosophy. There's no reason to doubt that the moral remedies devised, tested and found to be successful 2,000 years ago can be equally efficacious today.'
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'Gilbert Highet’s celebrity, however, did not come without a price, bringing with it adverse criticism from those who, perhaps jealous of his astonishing achievements, accused him of promoting 'middlebrow' culture.' On a pioneering publiciser of Classics: antigonejournal.com/2022/05/gilber…
'We may wonder: would Pygmalion be pleased and even eager to purchase (or create) a personal humanoid robot, were he to witness the modern advancements of technology?' Hard to say. On how the Ovidian myth squares with the AI reality of 'Sophia the Robot':
antigonejournal.com/2022/01/pygmal…
Is drinking the cause of and/or solution to all of life’s problems? – Plato and Philo on the wisdom of Homer (Simpson) Antigone Journal
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'To rid ourselves of the plague of false opinions about how to live our lives well we must turn to philosophy. There's no reason to doubt that the moral remedies devised, tested and found to be successful 2,000 years ago can be equally efficacious today.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/01/pandem…
'Gilbert Highet’s celebrity, however, did not come without a price, bringing with it adverse criticism from those who, perhaps jealous of his astonishing achievements, accused him of promoting 'middlebrow' culture.' On a pioneering publiciser of Classics: antigonejournal.com/2022/05/gilber…
Over the summer we posted a range of 19th-/20th- century Classics exams from various institutions in England and Ireland. We've gathered these together on one page but are keen for anyone with access to papers from other sources to send specimens our way!
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Antigone Journal Indeed -- perhaps as a parody of scholastic Latin? Coincidentally, if John Wiles was 50 when he died in 1691 then he was born in 1641, the year in which Descartes published his Meditationes.
