The Edithorial

The "Oedipus Vase"--NOT Fancy a Greek Theatre Workout? This is a blog crowd-sourcing about a famous ancient Greek image. Whi...

On the way to address an impressively big audience at the UK’s newest branch of the Classical Association, founded in Lytham St. Ann...

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba , That he should weep for her? Shakespeare's Ovid The 400 th anniversary of Shakespea...

Menander Mosaic in Mytilini Museum As the Pope flies into Lesbos (now Lesvos), I report on my own stay there last week. I was apprehen...

I've always had a problem with the way Aristotle’s thought is taught. At my uni in 1981 all his historical context, natural scienc...

Teenage Signature inside Mackail's AENEID The publication of Seamus Heaney’s translation of the sixth book of Vergil’s Aeneid coin...

Happy World Theatre Day, celebrated on March 27, which this year coincides with Western Easter.  At this time of year, when the sailin...