The Edithorial

Greek mouse-shaped baby-feeder decorated with a hippocamp My office at King’s College London is in an elderly wing often compared to ...

Fifteen years ago, the current Prime Minister of Britain published a novel called  Seventy-Two Virgins . It is a puerile attempt at a pol...

Over the last week I fulfilled an ambition I conceived as a Cold War teenager, locating places crucial to classical literature that t...

So we did it!  The ACE project  ran a whole week’s course on Classical Civilisation GCSE and A/S Level, with a session devoted to every...

On this day 170 years ago was born one of the heroes of the forthcoming book A People’s History of Classics I’ve written with Henry Stead...

The political associations of the discipline I have spent three decades trying to democratise have been tarnished this week. So, here is ...

Classicists are not always the most virtuous of people, but two classicists have outdone the rest of us mere narcissists, grudge-holders ...