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Nero and Agripinna (...and Britannicus too)

One of the great misfortunes of modern theatre is that the French have always 'got' tragedy far more than their Anglo-Saxon cousins; while I would give loose change to Shakespeare or Marlowe (or an ...

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Dionysus comes to London

What and where are the ethics of adaptation? It is perhaps the egotism of so many directors that leads me to groan whenever I see “adaptation” next to “Greek tragedy”. Too often translators ...

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New and Old-School Poets at the End of the Republic

Before there was Vergil, a generation of poets was testing the boundaries of Latin verse with exciting, powerful, and often downright scandalous poetry. We call them the “neoteric” poets today. ...

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Cicero and the Roman Republic

Almost everybody will have heard of Cicero, one of the most famous ancient Romans. Recently, he has even been presented again to a wider audience by Robert Harris’ novels Imperium and Lustrum, ...

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Interviews

(Not Quite) Thoroughly Modern Martha.

The clock struck thirteen as I stormed the ominous portals under the battlements of the British...

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A chat with Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye

In the midst of the apocalyptic storms that March had sent to whirl around the streets of London,...

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A Day in the Life of a Classicist

Classics is immensely transferable as a subject, and its students go on to almost every walk of...

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Travel

Great Cities of the Roman Empire - Tarragona, Spain

Welcome to Colonia Julia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco. Better known to us today as Tarragona, it is...

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Samothrace - Moving to a remote Greek island

The 180 km squared Greek island of Samothrace in the North Aegean is dominated by the 1600 metre...

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Dougga By Day

Tunisia, a richly historical land at present under-going a (one hopes, short) period of political...

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Great Cities of the Roman Empire - Nîmes

Le Midi is the name the French have given to the beautiful, southern region of their country and if...

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When in Rome use the underground

It isn’t surprising that Rome’s Underground/Metro system is smaller than that of London’s - after...

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Bacchus in France

Philippa Williams searches for the god of wine in Aquitaine.

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