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Excavating a Roman Town: the Silchester Town Life Project

The Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum at Silchester, Hampshire in southern England is, perhaps, the best known of the towns of Roman Britain. The reason for this is that, over 20 years around the ...

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A Romp Through I, Claudius

One Christmas (too many years ago), my trembling, puerile hands grasped the wrapping paper as I ripped off the colour to reveal editions of both I, Claudius and its sequel Claudius the God. My joy at ...

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Rhiannon Ash Meets... Tacitus

The perfect companion for dinner? Ninety nine people out of a hundred would probably choose not Tacitus himself, but one of his larger than life imperial creations – the warped performance artist ...

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Claudius: An Unlikely Conqueror

When asked to name the great conquerors of history, chances are you’ll think of a younger man. Alexander the Great was just twenty-five when he defeated the great King of Persia. Scipio ...

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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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