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Looking for Ithaca

After my last blog post, The Ruins of Troy, where we travelled to the site of Homer’s Troy, I thought it only fitting to turn to that other conundrum of Homeric archaeology – ...

The Ruins of Troy

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to visit the ruins of Troy in ...

Helen at the Globe

Philippa Williams finds a fleet-footed new take on the Trojan ...

In Search of Cleopatra

Cleopatra is something of an icon of our culture. How many people haven’t heard of Cleopatra’s famous suicide? Her infamous affair with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony? Her kohl-rimmed eyes and ...

Interviews

(Not Quite) Thoroughly Modern Martha.

The clock struck thirteen as I stormed the ominous portals under the battlements of the British...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Dougga By Day

Tunisia, a richly historical land at present under-going a (one hopes, short) period of political...

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...

When in Rome use the underground

It isn’t surprising that Rome’s Underground/Metro system is smaller than that of London’s - after...

Bacchus in France

Philippa Williams searches for the god of wine in Aquitaine.