Review: Myths, Gods and Immortals: Medusa
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Alexandra Sills
- Aug 9
- 5 min
Ancient Athletics Part Eleven: Romans at the Games
Romans? At the Olympics? Well, sometimes. Sort of. Alexandra Sills continues her exhaustive investigation...
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Alexandra Sills
- Aug 3
- 5 min
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
- 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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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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Carlotta Vincenzi
- Jun 6
- 3 min
Review: Bad Girls of Ancient Greece
A super-engaging compendium of female characters from Greek mythology releases on June 6th. Carlotta Vinccenzi thinks it's a cracker...
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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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Working Classicist Admin
- Apr 17
- 4 min
Endometriosis & Gynaecological Health in the Ancient World
Charlotte Horwood takes a look at endometriosis in the ancient world.
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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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Daniel Galef
- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
Sand Under the Glass
Daniel Galef takes you through the fascinating connections between geometry, myths and sand.
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Clifford S Marcus MA MCIL CL
- Sep 21, 2022
- 4 min
Echoes of the Cyclops
Clifford Marcus believes that chapter 34 of the Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov seems to be playing with Homer...
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Aidan Scully
- Sep 9, 2022
- 5 min
Antigone in the Age of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Is Antigone deserving of treatment as a heroine, or does she represent something uncomfortable to the 21st century?
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Megan Mahoney
- Sep 2, 2022
- 9 min
The Wine-Dark Sea
Megan Mahoney offers up the first chapter of her YA novel, with a hunt for Sirens...
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Ella Gilbert
- Aug 26, 2022
- 4 min
Killer Queen
Ella Gilbert thinks we need to take another look at Clytemnestra, who is more than just a killer queen.
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Ashleigh Hamilton
- Aug 19, 2022
- 4 min
The Influence of Aspasia
Ashleigh Hamilton gives a glimpse into the enduring influence of ancient Greece's savvy political operator.
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Veirs Tallis
- Aug 12, 2022
- 3 min
Ad Astra: Achilles: The Brightest Star of His Age
Veirs Tallis shares something fascinating about the night sky and Homer.
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Solomon McNeill-Khan
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
The Enduring Timelessness of Sappho
A look at why Sappho means so much to lovers of all stripes, but especially to the LGBTQ+ community.
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Anna Fernández Iglesias
- Jul 8, 2022
- 4 min
The Yassification of Medusa
Anna Fernández Iglesias offers some reflections on the filters the Greeks may have put on their lens for Medusa...
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Aisha Ahmad
- Jun 3, 2022
- 5 min
Rhetoric and Refugees: The Children of Herakles and The Modern Migration Crisis
A look at the attitudes ancient Athenians had to refugees, and what that reveals about them... and us.
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"For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.” - Cicero. Yes, that Cicero...
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