The Edithorial

I look like the right-hand Scythian (4th century BC, from Crimea) An arduous week at work was made worse by a nasty bout of toothache....

Lecturing at Hunter College in New York City has introduced me to a monumental public sculpture called TAU right outside the college’s d...

Yemeni Children's Desperate Quest for Clean Water Water shortage threatens more than fifteen million people in Yemen, many of them...

"Is that a plastic cup of Lager, Sir, or are You just pleased to see us?" A research trip to ask how the Greeks and Romans...

Can Swine Really Digest Pearls, Ma''am? Researching the Horrid History of intellectual snobbery, I have this week collected ma...

Perhaps it was the eclipse, but this week I have got cross with two separate men who are bedded down deep in the British Classics Establis...

The ancient Athenian equivalent of Mother’s Day? The Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries. These took place in March. They celebrated the springt...