Greek and Latin Classics - poetry, history, and literature - as well as music, psychology, and the meaning of life. From a Professor of Classics at Oxford.
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Whipping the sea
A giant whip? A Cat ’o Nine Tails with six tails
Writing around 430 BC, Herodotus tells how, when the Persian king Xerxes sought to invade Greece fifty years earlier, he instructed his engineers to bridge the Hellespont at its narrowest po...
A Political Poetaster
Mount Parnassus, Greece: the Mountain of the Muses
What is one to write when a much-loathed political figure turns his hand to poetry? Catullus’s bête noire in this regard, as in others, was Julius Caesar’s corrupt sidekick Marcus Mamurra,...
Spartan Marching Song
In the wake of Nolan’s Odyssey, some people are asking me about ancient Greek soldiery. I thought of the chant of the Spartan squaddies in the fifth century BC . A marching song (embaterion) survives - reminiscent of the Marmite chant - wh...
“A kid, I fell into milk!”
These enigmatic words, “A kid, I fell into milk” (or “you fell into milk”) are found on just four of the few dozen inscribed gold-leaf tablets (lamellae) that were buried with followers of the ancient Greek mysteries from around the 4th cen...
Waiting for the Barbarians
Assyrian King Sennacherib receives captives at Lachish c. 700–692 BC. British Museum.
Cavafy's best-known poem after 'Ithaca' is 'Waiting for the Barbarians". The image is of a fearful, static, society waiting for the impact of an uncertai...
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Professor of Classics, Oxford University. Lover of language, cello, puns, verse, and the Meaning of Liff. And the Oxford comma.
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