If you put the term ‘EPICUREAN’ into Dictionary.com, the meaning at the top of the list is: “fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence...

After my first set of exams at university, there was one morning where I woke early, couldn’t get back to sleep (pre-dawn, just), and so...

Wordy Weekly Extra A Wordy Weekly extra. Biological terms related to leaves (and this is just part 1): CHLOROPHYLL: you might think the...

Ancient Derivatives Outside of English Words in other languages that come from Latin or Greek this week, and one from another Ancient...

This article is inspired by a recent article in Classical Wisdom, on ‘Horror – Ancient Greek Style’ (https://classicalwisdom.com/culture/...

The Definition of Colour: A Classically inspired Critical Thinking Exercise “Colour is an effluence from shapes which is commensurate...

Cicero gives us tonight's shot of humour. He was a very witty man, and furnished us with a quotation in a previous week. Two from Cicero...

Cicero brings us today's risible delight. Caelius and rich widow Clodia had been an item. It then all broke up. After the break up,...

"I should as soon call Cicero a WIT!" (Sorry Jane Austen!) Ancient PUN-age! And no, nothing to do with the Carthaginians, because they...

Ovid once again. 'Militat omnis amans et habet sua castra Cupido' 'Every lover serves as a soldier and Cupid has his own camp.' ...

How to chat up a girl! Or not.... Cheesey chat up lines...we've probably all experienced one or two of those. And they are nothing new!...

Ovid again today and a bit of epic mockery. He begins one of his poetic books with the following line: 'Dicite, 'io Paean!' et 'io' bis...

You will certainly have realised by now that I am a big fan of Ovid. You will also have spotted that Ovid is very good at cleverly...

would like to suggest a comparison between a scene from Ovid and a scene from Monty Python, Holy Grail. Maybe Ovid, or just more...

Ovid has left us a treasure trove of humorous quotations. Truly hilarious and a comic master. The first comes from his opening lines of...

And we return to Ovid for this evening. Arma dedi Danais in Amazonas; arma supersunt, Quae tibi dem et turmae, Penthesilea, tuae. Ite in...

The fourth line of this quotation from the second book of Ovid's Ars Amatoria has been described as one of Ovid's worst lines, but...

In the eighth book of his great mock-epic poem the Metamorphoses, several renowned heroes of myth and heroine Atalanta gather to ensnare...

The Augury Rag (homage to Tom Lehrer with an ancient Rome twist) Make those Romans ill at ease, Meddle with your auguries, Lift your...

Here's THREE I prepared earlier. PUN ONE: -Did you see the film about the library which only leant out copies of the Iliad and Odyssey?...