The Edithorial

It’s been Phoenician-Carthaginian Week for me, culminating last night at the Proms in a BBC debate on ancient mariners with archa...

Devoted Current &Would-be Teachers of Class. Civ. at Cambridge 7 July The last three weeks consisted of serious and exciting work ...

Not Big Enough for modern teenagers I escaped to Rome and met a daughter backpacking with two friends. Two out of three expressed surp...

Bacchae : Mum/Daughter-Free Tragedy Some inspiring developments this week, but I’m feeling too dyspeptic to do them justice and am pos...

World UFO day, ‘dedicated to the Existence of Unidentified Flying Objects’, is celebrated on July 2, the anniversary of the Roswell Inci...

I spent half the week in Philadelphia giving a public lecture on that city’s most famous poet at the annual Ezra Pound Internationa...

Coast where the Danaids arrived from Egypt I spent two days finding the places where Aeschylus set some tragedies, in the Argolis, aro...