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An interview with Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes is the well-known historian, whose popular TV documentaries on the ancient world (The Spartans, The Minoans, Helen of Troy) have opened up classical studies to a wide audience. A ...

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Eternal Questions

Do you, I wonder, ever find yourself wondering about ‘life, the universe and everything’? Do you ever look up at the stars and feel awe at the immensity of the universe? Do you ever look at a ...

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Dougga By Day

Tunisia, a richly historical land at present under-going a (one hopes, short) period of political instability, has seemingly almost built its services and infrastructure around the needs of the poor ...

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What not to weave?

We need textiles every day of our life - for clothing, carpets, curtains, towels in the household, for decoration and so on. Because textiles - and especially clothes - are so visible, they have ...

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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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