Ancient Athletics Part Ten: Infamous Olympians
Bribing athletes, rule-bending and insulting the gods. Ancient Olympians would do a lot to get a sporting advantage.
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Alexandra Sills
- Aug 3
- 10 min
Ancient Athletics Part Nine: Famous Olympians
Which Olympian athlete was afraid of rude jokes? Which one was killed by a roof? Alexandra Sills has the answers and more...
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Alexandra Sills
- Jul 31
- 4 min
Ancient Athletics Part Seven: Five is a Magic Number
Running, wrestling, throwing and jumping. Alexandra Sills explains what it took to be an ancient pentathlete.
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Alexandra Sills
- Jul 30
- 5 min
Ancient Athletics Part Six: Kicking and Punching
How many ways can two guys batter one another? Quite a few, it seems. Alexandra Sills takes us back to the Olympics.
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Alexandra Sills
- Jul 29
- 4 min
Ancient Athletic Part Five: Big Track
Get your shoes on, get your headband on, get your cup of tea and put your sports-shoed feet up for this read about ancient track events.
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Alexandra Sills
- Jul 28
- 5 min
Ancient Athletics Part Four: Who's Who?
Who might you meet if you were visiting the Olympics at Olympia? Alexandra Sills takes you through the gathering throng.
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Working Classicist Admin
- Jul 27
- 5 min
Ancient Athletics Part Three: No Cheating!
Was pankration a ruleless fight? Could anyone take part? And why would a referee beat a javelin-thrower? Over to Alexandra Sills...
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Alexandra Sills
- Jul 26
- 6 min
Ancient Athletics Part Two: Get With the Programme
Alexandra Sills takes a look at how the ancient Olympics were arranged. Day five is a cracker!
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Alexandra Sills
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Ancient Athletics Part One: On Your Marks...
A brief set-up for a slew of Olympics-related articles coming over the next few days...
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Tallulah Trezevant
- Jun 13
- 14 min
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...
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Arianna J Baggett
- May 9
- 11 min
Dido Deserved Better
Like many victims of emotional abuse, Dido could not help loving a man who tortured her. Arianna J Baggett writes.
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Isabel Hood
- May 8
- 5 min
Classics About Town: Alexander the Traffic Warden?
In the first of a new series, Isabel Hood tells the story of an unexpected statue of Alexander the Great in Edinburgh city centre...
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Daniel Galef
- Nov 5, 2023
- 4 min
Imaginary Sonnets
Daniel Galef presents three Classically-themed sonnets.
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M Alzamora
- Sep 20, 2023
- 4 min
Hozier Meets Euterpe
M Alzamora has a closer look at the latest Hozier album - and finds mythology!
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Alexandra Sills
- Aug 13, 2023
- 6 min
Are You Not Entertained? (We Were.)
Working Classicist of the Year and self-confessed gladiator nerd, Alexandra Sills has been to a splendid exhibition in Colchester...
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Emily Singeisen
- Jul 21, 2023
- 5 min
Justice and guilt - from Oresteia to HBO's Barry
Emily Singeisen has a look at the moral ambiguities of justice, as shown in the works of Aeschylus and HBO...
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Carmen Robinson
- Jul 10, 2023
- 3 min
Putting Together the Puzzle of Botticelli's Venus
Carmen Robinson takes a closer look at a Renaissance classic....
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Miri Teixeira
- Jul 5, 2023
- 3 min
The best Classics PC games on the Steam Summer Sale
Our own Miri Teixeira has been skimming the Steam sale and has selected some cut-price bangers for you...
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Emily Small
- Apr 14, 2023
- 8 min
The Course Choice Rubicon
Emily Small's short story shows the difficult process of choosing school subjects, based on an unusual visitation...
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Veirs Tallis
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
Ad Astra: The Torch Bearer: Dionysus, Iacchos, and Arcturus in the Eleusinian Mysteries
In the second of the Ad Astra series, Veirs Tallis discusses the importance of Arcturus to Eleusinian initiates, wine-makers and astronomers
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