Archive - Armand’s Substack: Little Latin and More Greek

Braggart Soldier

The insouciant deserter

Nov 23 • Armand D'Angour

Pleasure is relative

The Savoy Shower Principle

Nov 17 • Armand D'Angour

A Latin poem for Remembrance Sunday

Nov 9 • Armand D'Angour

The Harp Song of Nature

Anacreon's Cicada

Nov 8 • Armand D'Angour

September 2025

The Silence of the Frogs

Tacitly poking fun at Dead Poets

Sep 23 • Armand D'Angour

Catullus's Bigger Ship

Peleus and Thetis

Sep 21 • Armand D'Angour

To travel is better than to arrive

Cavafy's 'Ithaka'

Sep 10 • Armand D'Angour

Gazing at the Stars

Ancient love and loneliness

Sep 5 • Armand D'Angour

Catullus's rudest poem

Friendship and poetry

Sep 3 • Armand D'Angour

"I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen"

Sep 2 • Armand D'Angour

August 2025

Better die free than live a slave

Cavafy's Satrapy

Aug 27 • Armand D'Angour

The Poet's Complaint

Rhythms of old age and false teeth

Aug 23 • Armand D'Angour

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