Sirmione on Lake Garda is a gorgeous place – peaceful and unspoiled. It is also the subject of the Work of the Week explored in this...

Euripides, Hippolytus When I was an undergraduate and studying this play as a set text for one of my Finals’ papers, I had to answer the...

A nine-book history, running from the Trojan War to the end of the Persian Wars with Greece, and for this, I would argue quite rightly,...

Pindar has just received his entry in Who's Who. He became a huge favourite of mine at University when I studied Olympian Odes 1 and 7,...

Work of the Week II - Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum. Whilst it is true that Roman statesman were certainly not expected to account for...

I was going to open this new category of the blog with Ovid’s Fasti, his very charming and completely underrated waltz through the Roman...