Non-fiction

TO BE RELEASED IN DUTCH IN THE AUTUMN OF 2020 In the spring of 2020, the world fell prey to a pandemic due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Northern Italy was…

“What doubt is for science,” wrote the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), “that is irony for personal life.” But in the social debate, irony soon leads to indifference. And Kierkegaard…

About refugees, migrants, fear and hope. According to Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, the massive immigration to Europe cannot be stopped. ‘And what is inevitable is best organized as well as possible.’…

A textedition with a poetic translation and introduction of the Voces Haganae of the Dutch poet and diplomat Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687).

A selection of the columns on Dutch and international politics.

At 4pm on June 1st 2008, a poet weighing upwards of 100 kilos and a petite Russian photographer decided to set off from Leiden on their bikes, with the idea…

Every generation has its book of Greek myths. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has written one for the 21st century. Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer took the poetry world by storm in 1998 with…

After his avant-garde Pirandello-esque novel, Real Life, Ilja Pfeijffer decided to try out other lives, namely Se- cond Life, a multi-player virtual world accessed via the internet. Economists are fascinated…

This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models or completely ignored….

What’s to become of poetry? Everyone is versifying anything, everything is allowed and nothing is bad. High time for new standards and values. The secret of the Murdered Maunder is…

In De Antieken, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer tells classical literature’s tale from Homer to the fall of Rome.  He does so in ways that are so infectious, so original that they…

In his own time Bacchylides was considered the equal of Pindar, the most famous representative of archaic Greek lyric. Until the publication of the London papyrus in 1897; the study…

This book is about passages where Pindar uses the future tense with reference to himself or to his song. It addresses the question as to exactly what the function is…

A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and…