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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The Emperor's New Clothes
In this short poem Cavy muses on how Emperor Manuel Komnenos (1118-80) called for humble religious clothing when he thought death was imminent. Dying in monastic attire was a Byzantine custom, believed to wash away one’s sins of pride and i...
The End of the Odyssey
Ulysses and Penelope by Francesco Primaticcio (1504-70)
Two ancient scholars, Aristarchus of Samothrace and Aristophanes of Byzantium (3rd-2nd century BC), agreed that the true end of Homer’s Odyssey should come at verse 23.296, more than...
The sailor's homecoming
Henri Matisse ‘Le bonheur de vivre’ (Joy of living) 1906
Odysseus returns after twenty years to Ithaca and to his faithful wife Penelope (see my review of Christopher Nolan’s film). Penelope is hesitant to believe that he is who he claims...
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...
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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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