Armand D’Angour
Armand D’Angour is Professor of Classics and a Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Oxford. His books include The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience (2011), Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher (2019), How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (2021) and How to Talk About Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers (2025). He co-hosts (with Jimmy Mulville) the podcast It’s All Greek (& Latin!) to Me.
Written by Armand D’Angour
Learning and education
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Speaking Latin brings an unmediated thrill to the Classics
Learning Latin shouldn’t be like solving crossword puzzles – it was a living language and is best learnt by speaking it
by Armand D’Angour
Poetry
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Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation
Behold a man tortured on the rack, pulled apart by love and hate: how to understand Catullus’s best-known poem
by Armand D’Angour