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Saving Classics at Royal Holloway

In the relatively small and spread-out world of Classical scholarship, conferences provide opportunities for Classicists from different fields, backgrounds and countries to get to know one another. ...

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When Did Ancient Greece Become a Slave Society?

By the fifth century BCE Athens and many other Greek city-states had large numbers of slaves. During the last years of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides (7.27) believed that more than 20,000 slaves ...

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An interview with MI5's Jonathan Evans

Classicists have certainly had some interesting career paths. Jonathan Evans studied Latin and Greek at Bristol University . He is now the Director General of the Security Service, commonly known ...

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Orpheus and Eurydice poetry competition (2010)

Last year, Iris magazine and Tellus magazine teamed up to run a joint competition for under 18s on the subject of Orpheus and Eurydice. The story of Orpheus and his doomed mission to save his dead ...

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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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