Armand D’Angour
Professor of Classics, University of Oxford, UK
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.
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Thinkers and theories
The truth about love
In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really?
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Thinkers and theories
Was the real Socrates more worldly and amorous than we knew?
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Music
Can we know what music sounded like in Ancient Greece?
Armand D’Angour