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So who is Iris anyway?

Emily investigates the legacy of our namesake, the goddess Iris, and comes up with surprising ...

A Day in the Life of a Classicist

This week, Philippa speaks to PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER SMITH, Director of the British School at ...

Missives from Iris

Iris introduces our new blogger and companion to Classics, Emily Hauser. In her first post, Emily chooses her top 3 heroines of the ancient ...

A Day in the Life of a Classicist

This week, Philippa speaks with MARCO BENOIT CARBONE, a doctoral student from University College London who is engaged on research into the myth of Scylla 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.