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our Latest ARTICLEs:
The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World
GISELLE ACOSTA Have attitudes to ink changed over millennia?
What Cicero Should Have Done: The Catilinarian Conspiracy Revisited
R. A. MAGUIRE Could Cicero have avoided exile?
What Did Aspasia Really Look Like?
FRANCES FORBES-CARBINES Portraying Pericles’ partner.
Julius Caesar’s Last Words
J.S. UBHI Beware the Ides of March
Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part II)
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why burn Greek and Latin down?
Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part I)
WOLFGANG DE MELO On the value of translation.
Biennium Beantium: Two Years of Antigone
WE ARE HAVING Plenty of fun.
Commodus: Rome’s Problem Child?
DAN BILLINGHAM Finding the man behind the myth.
Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s ‘Meghnadbadh Kabya’.
The Ancient Boundaries of Classics
DOBRINKA CHIEKOVA The rich interaction between Greece and Thrace.
Classical Culture in British India, Part II: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet and Classicist
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI The poet who brought Latin and Greek into Bengali literature.
Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.
What Colour are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship
ALEXANDRA TRACHSEL On verbal polychromy.
Classical Culture in British India, Part I: The Bengal ‘Renaissance’
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI How Latin and Greek came to influence poetry in Calcutta.
Helena, Julian and Attila: The Twilight of Rome in 20th-century Fiction
EDMUND RACHER Rome’s Recessional in the novels of Burgess, Waugh and Vidal.
Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation: A Personal View
COME WATCH THE BBC at its most ambitious.
The Roman Army’s Trusty Vultures: The World’s First Banded Birds
ADRIENNE MAYOR When birds join the war effort.
Socrates Redux: Antigone Competition Winners
SOCRATES RETURNS To speak truth to power.
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