Armand’s Substack: Little Latin and More Greek
Armand D'AngourGreek and Latin Classics - poetry, history, and literature - as well as music, psychology, and the meaning of life. From a Professor of Classics at Oxford.
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East vs. West
As the US and Iran engage in intermittent warfare, the opening of the first written work of history, Herodotus’s Histories, comes sharply to mind. A generation after Persian Wars (the series of Greek-Persian conflicts of 490-479 BC) Herodot...
Lightning in a clear sky!
The Farnese Atlas, c. AD 150, Naples Archaeological Museum
Keir Starmer’s recent resignation to make way for Andy Burnham reminded me of a witty ode by Horace (Odes 1.34, which I translate and read below) that ends with the image of Fate c...
The Path from Aulis
Orestes defying the Furies, detail from an Apulian vase c. 380 BC
At the heart of Aeschylus’s tragic trilogy of 458 BC, the Oresteia, are two cryptic mottoes repeated by the chorus: pathei mathos - literally ‘by suffering, learning’ and p...
Lost in Translation
Erotic fresco from a house in Pompeii
When I see a short English poem I often translate it in my head into Latin or Greek. The other day I composed a Latin elegiac couplet, as if it had been addressed by Catullus to his beloved Lesbia, as...
Artemis Returns
To Homer was attributed a series of ancient hymns dating from around 700 to 500 BC, addressed to the Olympian gods, in hexameter verse. The recent voyage of Artemis II, the rocket that flew around the moon, brought to my mind the Homeric Hy...
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Professor of Classics, Oxford University. Lover of language, cello, puns, verse, and the Meaning of Liff. And the Oxford comma.
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