Working

Classicists

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.

Working

Classicists

Awards 2025

Nominations are now open for six categories.

Community Classicist

Creative Classicist

Educator Classicist

Newcomer Classicist

Unsung Classicist

Working Classicist of the Year

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