Classical Studies Support

What makes you feel better when times are hard? In this series of interviews from the lockdowns of 2020-21, Classics enthusiasts share the sources from the Ancient World which comfort and inspire them.

 

 

 

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. Shana Zaia: The Epic of Gilgamesh
147. Carl Graves: the stela of Seped-Hor
148. Karl Anthony Mercer: Agrippa and the Pantheon
149. Jeremy J. Swist: Julian’s The Caesars
150. Madeleine Chawner: ancient and modern mythologies
151. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele: Ammianus Marcellinus
152. Liv Mariah Yarrow: image databases
153. Tim Kenny: Apollonius’ Argonautica
154. Ronnais Lloyd: Sophocles’ Philoctetes
155. Lucy Angel: the Sea Creatures Mosaic in Pompeii
156. Katrina Moore: the Portico of Octavia
157. Amber Taylor: Ovid, Metamorphoses 3
158. Carly Silver: the pig stele of Edessa
159. Kenneth Cameron: Virgil’s rural poetry
160. 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