Like sports stars today, successful athletes in ancient Greece were held up as heroes, and often considered larger than life. Heroes and athletes were commemorated in much the same way. The ...
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 ...
Read more: Iris chat with the Rogue Classicist
The clock struck thirteen as I stormed the ominous portals under the battlements of the British Broadcasting Corporation and I am wan with care. Moreover I am feeling a little bit like a rather ...
Read more: (Not Quite) Thoroughly Modern Martha.
The 180 km squared Greek island of Samothrace in the North Aegean is dominated by the 1600 metre mountain “Saos” or“ Fegarri”, meaning moon, said to be the throne on which Poseidon sat to ...
Read more: Samothrace - Moving to a remote Greek island