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The Classical Association Conference 2013

Where would you find historical novelists, classicists, teachers, ancient historians, and students from all over the world all rubbing shoulders? It must be the Classical Association Annual ...

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Iris fiction competition 2012-3 – results now in!

We're delighted to announce that the judging process is now completed and winners have been chosen! Many thanks for all the people who entered the competition – we enjoyed reading every one of ...

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Love is in the air...

Love is in the air today and probably none more so than for the One Direction singer, Harry Styles. This may be expected from young girls, but much of the love could come from the philosophy and ...

Sex Games: Power and the Birth of a Genre in Rome

Verona, Northern Italy, 84BCE saw the birth of the poet who was to give life to one of the most controversial genres of Latin poetry, erotic elegy, the genre more standardly associated with Tibullus, ...

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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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