Working

Classicists

Working Classicists Awards 2025

And the Winner Is…

What is Working Classicists?

Working Classicists is a collective project aiming to democratise the study of the ancient world, and raise its profile in state schools.

Since 2021, we have platformed more than a hundred writers in our Zine, spoken at conferences and schools, built bridges with other organisations, and provided a source of solidarity for pupils, students, academics and enthusiasts from the state sector.

We believe that the study of Sophocles, Plato, Sappho, Augustus, Claudius, Cleopatra et al should not become a plaything for the privately educated, and that access to this field must be broadened for the benefit of the 93% who attend state schools, and for the sake of the subjects themselves.

A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology

We are thrilled to announce our first book, A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology, will be published by Contubernales on February 5th, 2025.

  • "We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them."

    Mark Thomas

  • "The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes."

    Noah Webster

  • "The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house."

    Gary Stevenson

  • "The principle of solidarity says, 'I will happily pay taxes so the kid across the street can go to school'."

    Noam Chomsky

  • "So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough."

    Shakespeare, King Lear (4.1)

  • "They have yet to consider that republicanism might largely be a cloak for oligarchic privilege—as it often is to this day—worn grudgingly by the elites as long as it proved serviceable to their interests."

    Michael Parenti