Author Archives: Armand D'Angour

About Armand D'Angour

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College Oxford.

Notes on Education

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Armand D'Angour

William Johnson Cory, schoolmaster and poet, wrote the paragraph below, summing up what he saw to be the purpose of education at Eton. It expresses sentiments that nowadays might be more apt to education at university level (at least in … Continue reading →

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Ode to Michael Wood and Rebecca Dobbs

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Armand D'Angour

Ode in Ancient Greek for Michael Wood and Rebecca Dobbs April 2022 At a Gala Auction held in late 2021 to raise money for Classics for All, Michael Wood and Rebecca Dobbs made a substantial bid and won the prize … Continue reading →

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Musica linguae, lingua musicae

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Armand D'Angour

Musica linguae, lingua musicae A talk given in Latin as part of a cultural panel at the Delphi Economic Forum, April 2022. The Latin text is given below the English. A recording of the event is here: I speak from … Continue reading →

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Reviews of Socrates in Love

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Armand D'Angour

Mostly printed in full; some redacted for reasons of space or preference (with links to online originals). 1. Ancient Philosophy (David Hoinski) 2. Australian Book Review(Julia Kindt) 3. The Telegraph(Nikhil Krishnan) 4. The Times (Patrick Kidd) 5. Wall Street Journal(Jamie … Continue reading →

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Brekekekex Koax Koax

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Armand D'Angour

The Frogs Chorus in Aristophanes Frogs: competing with Dionysus Dionysus is rowing across the lake of the Underworld to a steady rhythm when he is interrupted by the frog chorus, singing to the accompaniment of the aulos (a double pipe, … Continue reading →

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Kaineus Rising

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Armand D'Angour

                Kaineus Rising: A Trans Generational Myth Kaineus always knew he was meant to be a girl. Growing up amid the hills and vales of Thessaly in what is now northern Greece, he … Continue reading →

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Vivaldi’s Four Sonnets

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Armand D'Angour

The inspiration behind Vivaldi’s composition of his famous Four Seasons appears to be sonnets that he composed himself. In preparation for a Trio Recital (in which we played Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires), I undertook to make a poetic … Continue reading →

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The Codes of Horace

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Armand D'Angour

[An abbreviated version of a talk I gave to the Horatian Society in London in 2005, in which I take a critical view of the idea that poets and authors insert acrostic or other ‘codes’ into their works.] The profanum vulgus, … Continue reading →

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Catullus’s model boat

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Armand D'Angour

                         The poet Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) presents himself as showing off to visitors a model boat in a domestic shrine to Castor and Pollux, and imagines listening to … Continue reading →

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In memoriam Martin West

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Armand D'Angour

The unexpected death (at the age of 77) on 13 July 2015 of Martin West, the greatest classicist of his generation,  has left a hole in the world of scholarship and philology. It also leaves me with a sense of profound … Continue reading →

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