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Plum: Comedy and Tragedy

‘”Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?” Said Wilfred. ...

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The Little Rome of Ancient Gaul

A treasure of monuments, ruins, and art that allows a glimpse into the city’s former golden age as one of Rome’s proudest and most prosperous colonies, Arles is, in fact, a four course ...

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The Perfect Selfie

Social media is awash with photographs that people have taken of themselves. Everyone is guilty of it; from schoolchildren and pop stars, to Barack Obama and the Pope. Quite often these ...

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Imitation, Imagery and Alexander Pope

On the title page of William Mason’s 1747 “Musaeus, a Monody on the Death of Mr. Pope” is an engraving that neatly encapsulates both the accompanying poem and the high regard with which ...

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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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