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The Polyglot Parliamentarian

Iris Online meets Jenny Willott MP. Peruse the CV of Jenny Willott, Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, and you might think at first that she was destined for a life in politics: a career ...

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Knossus: A Minor Tour

When considering Knossos it’s easy to be led astray. What is it? A palace? A labyrinth? Much of it has been extensively reconstructed, and the original site was itself built over the remains ...

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Pride Before The Fall

Following a well-received run at the Manchester Royal Exchange and then Shakespeare's Globe, poet Simon Armitage’s The Last Days of Troy, his adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, makes a welcome ...

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Top Ten Greek Astronomers

Alongside democracy and running around in circles and calling it athletics, Greek astronomy is one of the major legacies of the ancient world and was hugely important in the development of later ...

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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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