Archive - The Classical Futurist

The Library of Philodemus

Celebrating the Vesuvius Challenge

Sep 6, 2024 •

Sebastian Garren

May 2024

How Ancient Rome Built A Psychologically Resilient Culture

The power of philosophical entertainment

May 16, 2024 •

February 2024

Why 300 is the best modern film about ancient Greece

Spartan propaganda and modern love

Published on Caleb’s Newsletter • Feb 1, 2024

October 2023

Most People Are Other People

Why Shakespeare is great

Oct 12, 2023 •

September 2023

The Threatened Survival of Ancient Texts

Greek literature exists due to recurrent utility, not material preservation

Sep 5, 2023 •

August 2023

Pyramid schemes

What a modern sex cult can tell us about ancient states

Published on Owl of Athena • Aug 8, 2023

July 2023

Weaving Past, Present, and Future Together: Lessons from the Renaissance

Renaissance thinkers teach us how to value the past while creating a better future.

Jul 11, 2023 •

June 2023

All Rebirths Grow From the Soil of the Past

Across history, civilizational renewal always takes root in the heritage of the classics

Jun 1, 2023 •

May 2023

Dying With Dignity, Departing Without Memorial

A meditation on classical and modern views of death

May 5, 2023 •

April 2023

When Antiquity Trained the Future

History, culture, and the quest for practical wisdom

Apr 3, 2023 •

Sebastian Garren

March 2023

Classics from the New World

Can and should non-Western philosophy be part of the canon?

Mar 3, 2023 •

Étienne Fortier-Dubois

February 2023

Stoics And Epicureans Have Returned. So Where Are the Cynics?

Why Cynicism is absent from the modern world, and how it might reemerge

Feb 1, 2023 •

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