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People with a Price: Slavery in the Roman World

Slavery has been a disturbingly normal part of human history. As an institution, slavery seems to be as old as civilization itself; images and documents going back to the third millennium BC ...

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Inscripta: the writing on the wall

For those who haven't yet been fortunate enough to hear of it, The Inscripta Project is an interactive website revolving around fifty Romano-British inscriptions. The aim is to “to teach students ...

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Iris chat with the Rogue Classicist

For many years the Classics community has been visiting Rogue Classicism, a hugely popular Classics blog run by David Meadows, a Canadian Classicist and school teacher. So we at Iris relished the ...

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At home with Odysseus (and his servants)

You are Odysseus. You have just spent 20 years away from your family, first at war and then lost on your way home. When you arrive back you have to disguise yourself because everyone assumes that you ...

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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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