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Armand D’Angour

Associate Professor in Classics, University of Oxford

Armand D’Angour is a 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) and Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece (2018), co-edited with Tom Phillips. His latest book is Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher (2019).

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Written by Armand D’Angour

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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

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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

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