Saturday, 25 July 2020

On Capital Punishment and Psychological Degradation

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It is a grim anniversary. A year ago today the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced the addendum to the Execution Protocol which made it po...
Saturday, 18 July 2020

Brennus the Contested Conqueror of Rome

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July 18 is the anniversary of the momentous Battle of the Allia (c. 390 BCE).  The Gallic Senones defeated the Roman Republic as thei...
Sunday, 28 June 2020

Ancient Theatre for the 21st Century: E-Books for All

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The lockdown has made many of us experiment with new ways of accessing information and scholarship. I recommend these new multimedia eb...
Saturday, 16 May 2020

Update from One Classicist's Lockdown

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Blogging has not come naturally over the last few weeks. I’m not cracking many jokes and those I do are so saturnine as to be in bad tast...
Sunday, 29 March 2020

When it's a 1960s Sunday Every Day

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John Everett Millais "My First Sermon" We're fortunate that we have no small children at home, that everyone has their o...
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Sunday, 23 February 2020

Plea to Priti Patel to Deport the Parthenon Sculptures

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Deport these Unskilled Ancient Athenians Immediately! It’s rumoured that what are wrongly known as the Elgin Marbles may feature in E...
Saturday, 8 February 2020

Poussin's Disabled Divinities: Orion and the Rising Sun

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I’m writing up an article for a volume edited by my wonderful KCL colleague, Dr Ellen Adams, entitled The Forgotten Other: Disability Stu...