Classics - Topics

Greek myth has no single canon and school textbooks quietly pretend otherwise How much of modern astrology comes straight from Hellenistic texts? What the three dramatic unities actually require What Marcus Aurelius actually wrote in Meditations and why he never meant it for publication What Cicero's rules of arrangement still do in a modern op-ed Why Aristotle ranked tragedy above epic Greek and Latin meter counted long and short syllables while English counts stress Why Aristotle makes peripeteia and anagnorisis the hinges of a plot The classical tradition is a modern invention sold as an inheritance What deliberative rhetoric asks an audience to do that epideictic does not Why the enthymeme works by leaving a premise for the audience to supply What decorum meant to a Roman orator Ancient philosophy belongs to two departments and neither reads the other's scholarship Why does every generation restage Greek tragedy with its own politics? Was there ever a classical canon outside Greece and Rome? Classics vanishes from the outline once a university dissolves the department The dead white men argument is really about who is allowed to read Greek Why Grimm's law turns Latin pater into English father Why modern retellings of Greek myth are not just fan fiction Does Greece or the West own ancient Greek literature? Latin was a class marker long before it was a school subject Why archaeology sits in a classics department at one university and an anthropology department at another What a hapax legomenon in Homer says about lost Greek dialects When editors print a word that no surviving manuscript contains Which edition of the Iliad am I actually reading? Roman law is still inside the civil codes of half of Europe