Classical Studies Support

What makes you feel better when times are hard? In this series of interviews, Classics enthusiasts share the sources from the Ancient World which comfort and inspire them.

Contact me if you would like to join in! I’ll be continuing to add interviews until we’re no longer in need of happy thoughts.

 

 

 

Comfort Classics Interviews

1. Steve Havelin: a fresco from Stabiae
2. Lilah Grace Canevaro: Hesiod’s Works and Days
3. Jack Lambert: the mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrite
4. Joanna Paul: Cavafy’s ‘Ithaka’
5. Gina May: Homer’s Odyssey
6. Klara Hegedus: the Roman Forum
7. Christine Plastow: Antiphon 6
8. Mary Beard: Homer’s Odyssey
9. Rob Cromarty: Ovid’s Amores
10. Colin Gough: Homer’s Odyssey and a documentary
11. Sarah Thomason: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and George Thomson
12. LJ Trafford: Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars
13. Pam Herbert: a mosaic from Sicily
14. Naoko Yamagata: the philosophy of Epicurus
15. Tony Potter: Martial’s Epigrams
16. Edith Hall: an epigram by Nossis
17. Liz Gloyn: Petronius’ Satyricon
18. Greg Woolf: Juvenal’s Satires
19. Leigh David Cobley: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
20. Valerie Hope: the Letters of Pliny the Younger
21. Gideon Nisbet: the epigrams of the Greek Anthology
22. Laura Jenkinson-Brown: Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths
23. Neville Morley: Frontinus, De Aquis Urbis Romae
24. Daisy Dunn: a terracotta sculpture
25. Jan Haywood: Herodotus’ Histories
26. David Meadows: a sarcophagus of the Sirens and the Muses
27. Anactoria Clarke: Tryphiodorus’ The Taking of Ilios
28. Jaap Wisse: Virgil’s Aeneid
29. Emma Bridges: Aristophanes
30. Michael Scott: The Philogelos
31. Frederick Armour: Pindar’s Odes
32. Susan Raikes: a child’s sock from Roman Egypt
33. Armand D’Angour: a poem by Nicarchus
34. Valeria Bosisio: the Terme Boxer
35. Simon Pulleyn: Virgil’s Eclogues
36. Mirko Canevaro: Aristophanes’ Wasps
37. Tom Mason: Epicurus and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
38. Katie Low: Tacitus
39. Penny Whitworth: images of Corinth
40. Flora Kirk: a statuette of Mercury
41. James Robson: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
42. Lucia Nixon: icon stands in Sphakia
43. Peta Greenfield: the Ara Pacis
44. Hayley Merchant: Trajan’s Column
45. Ian Tompkins: the ruins of Cyrrhus
46. Fiona Radford: an aureus of Nero and Agrippina
47. Claudio Sansone: Archilochus and Sanskrit poetry
48. John O’Flaherty: Virgil’s Aeneid – lacrimae rerum
49. Jennie Baillie: Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne
50. Phil Perkins: Etruria
51. Caroline Lawrence: Martial’s Saturnalia Gifts
52. Greg Gilles: ancient frescoes
53. Flint Dibble: a kylix painting of a dog
54. Steve Jenkin: the view from Delphi’s theatre
55. Georgy Kantor: Tacitus’ Annals and Histories
56. Madeleine Perridge: amphora of Achilles and Penthesilea
57. Emma Pauly: Ovid, Metamorphoses III
58. Llewelyn Morgan: Horace’s Odes
59. Karis Williamson: Homer’s Iliad I
60. Jessica Hughes: South Italian vases
61. Jennifer Ingleheart: Housman and Sappho
62. Andrew Fox: Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
63. E-J Graham: votive babies
64. Verity Platt: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
65. Pippa Steele: an alphabet cockerel
66. Stephanie Holton: the fragments of Heraclitus
67. Ian Spoor: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
68. Abi Buglass: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
69. Frances Breen: a Pompeian swan fresco
70. Matt Myers: Tacitus’ Histories
71. Ben Tanner: Aristophanes’ Frogs
72. Andrew Parkin: a bathing Venus relief from Northumberland
73. Andrew Sillett: the letters of Cicero
74. Liz Webb: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War
75. Alex Imrie: Cassius Dio’s Roman History
76. Tony Keen: Carry On Cleo
77. Jo Ball: Roman personal letters
78. Matt Simonton: Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae
79. Arlene Holmes-Henderson: Seneca’s Moral Letters
80. Gavin McCormick: the Octavius of Minucius Felix
81. Michael Loy: the Nikandre kore 
82. Lily Mac Mahon: the Fayum mummy portraits
83. Carey Fleiner: the Capitoline Wolf
84. Owen Rees: Xenophon’s Anabasis
85. Julian Morgan: Thucydides I.22 and Horace Odes III.30
86. Manu Dal Borgo: Lysias
87. Victoria Austen: Livia’s Garden Room
88. Andy Keen: Sophocles’s Oedipus the King.
89. Jamie Heath: the view from the Via Monte Tarpeo, overlooking the Forum
90. Ersin Hussein: the landscape of Cyprus
91. Michael Beer: Virgil’s Aeneid
92. Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Max Goldman: working together
93. Danny Bate: a Gallo-Latin inscription from Alise-Sainte-Reine
94. Emily Hauser: Seneca’s Letters 
95. George Cornelius: early archaeology
96. Jennifer Gane: the Laudatio Turiae
97. Joshua Kinlaw: Hesiod’s Works and Days
98. Kerry Phelan: Sappho
99. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: the tomb-inscription of Darius the Great
100. Joel Christensen: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
101. Eduardo García-Molina:  a silver tetradrachm of the Seleukid Empire
102. M.C. Williams: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
103. Rachel Stott: the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
104. Michael Wood: travelling with texts
105. Derek McCann: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus.
106. Ellie Newman: the Historia Augusta
107. Cressida Ryan: Sophocles and Lucretius
108. Helen McVeigh: the Phaistos Disc
109. Ben Cassell: Plutarch’s Life of Theseus
110. Hannah Clements-Patrick: Martial’s epigram I.109
111. Georgina Homer: Ovid’s Heroides 12, Medea to Jason
112. Marika Strano: Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis
113. Carolyn Perry: a portrait bust of Alexander
114. Abigail Graham: Catullus
115. Francesca Grilli: the Delphi Charioteer
116. Lynn Gordon: a Latin textbook
117. Connor Hickey: Sallust’s The War with Catiline
118. Hardeep Dhindsa: an inscription from Pompeii
119. Chiara Sulprizio: the Delphic maxims
120. Jane Draycott: papyri and ostraca
121. Angharad Derbyshire: Horace’s Satires I.5 and II.6
122. Claire Millington: funerary monuments
123. Anna P. Judson: a Linear B clay tablet from Pylos
124. Barbara Roberts: Pompeian graffiti
125. Sarah Cullinan Herring: Catullus 101
126. Julie Levy: Sappho, Frogs and Senecan tragedy
127. Anne Chafer: Book 6 of Homer’s Iliad
128. Yentl Love: Sappho 31
129. Ed Clarke: Catullus
130. David Stuttard: Sappho 96 
131. Josh Nudell: an inscription from Athens
132. Steve O’Sullivan: Catullus 51
133. Christian Cameron: Plato’s Charmides
134. Charlie Pemberton: the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai
135. Megan Bowler: Virgil’s Georgics
136. Tine Rassalle: the Horvat Kur stone
137. Laura Aitken-Burt: the Athenian Acropolis
138. Laura Frosdick: the Prima Porta statue
139. Elizabeth Shepherd: the Lion Gate at Mycenae
140. Chloë Griggs: Catullus
141. Katrina Kelly: the Villa di Poppea
142. A.E. Stallings: the Little Refugee
143. Caroline K. Mackenzie: Lullingstone Roman Villa
144. Peter Frankopan: the Alexiad
145. Alexandra Sills: the Sondheim/Shevelove Frogs
146. Louise O’Brien: Bes jars
147. Shana Zaia: The Epic of Gilgamesh
148. Carl Graves: the stela of Seped-Hor
149. Karl Anthony Mercer: Agrippa and the Pantheon
150. Jeremy J. Swist: Julian’s The Caesars
151. Madeleine Chawner: ancient and modern mythologies
152. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele: Ammianus Marcellinus
153. Liv Mariah Yarrow: image databases
154. Tim Kenny: Apollonius’ Argonautica
155. Ronnais Lloyd: Sophocles’ Philoctetes
156. Lucy Angel: the Sea Creatures Mosaic in Pompeii
157. Katrina Moore: the Portico of Octavia
158. Amber Taylor: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3
159. Carly Silver: the pig stele of Edessa
160. Kenneth Cameron: Virgil’s rural poetry
161. Campbell Price: an offering table of Queen Tiye

 

 

Comfort Classics: An Anniversary

15 Weeks of Comfort Classics

 

 

 

Featured in:

Comforting Classics in  Changing Times, The Royal Society of Arts

Comfort Classics – How the ancient world is providing solace for those in lockdown, Arts & Humanities in the time of COVID-19

Insights, Kallos Gallery Newsletter

Open Access Resources, Institute of Classical Studies

CAHA Recommends, University of Birmingham

Learning Resources, A Dynamic Reader

Greek epigram – and more – on Comfort Classics, Blogging Ancient Epigram

Multimedia, Flint Dibble

Find Comfort in the Classics, The University of Winnipeg

 

 

 

Although the ancient world itself was not a particularly comforting place we can still find wisdom, humour and a little perspective on our current challenges. Dr Cora Beth Knowles FRSA on her project which is helping students through this uncertain period.https://t.co/D8bmtH9ZAw

— The RSA (@theRSAorg) June 19, 2020