Monday, 30 August 2021

The Weirdest Royal Wedding: Antiochus and Stratonice

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  It is Jacques-Louis David’s birthday. He is all too familiar amongst classicists because his paintings ‘The Sabine Women’, ‘The Death of S...
Sunday, 18 July 2021

Tories, Tyrants & Tall Poppies

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  In this week’s incoherent speech ‘explaining’ his ‘levelling up policy', delivered at a West Midlands battery factory where he had app...
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Saturday, 3 July 2021

Memories of Talking Medea with Helen McCrory

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  In early 2014 I   went downstairs to reception and saw a tiny figure, in a hat worthy of the Peaky Blinders, sunglasses, loose trousers an...
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Sunday, 13 June 2021

On Being Able to See Again Now and in Ancient Athens

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  My second-last blog was written at my worst low for three decades. Professional problems have been compounded by eyesight hassles, and the...
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Thursday, 27 May 2021

Can The Most Tragic Tragedy, Trojan Women, be Turned into a Comic?

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  Here is a first draft of my review of Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno's Trojan Women: A Comic , which appeared in a paywalled version in...
Sunday, 11 April 2021

Countering Misery with Greek Authors beginning with A

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  I have not been able to blog for weeks during the worst professional time of my entire working life. I will be able to explain in more d...
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Sunday, 21 February 2021

On Not Apologising for Teaching and Promoting "Classics"

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  Around the beginning of the 18 th century, the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans and the languages they spoke began t...
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