It's All Ancient History
Honor Cargill-MartinThe ancient world is not remote — it is still shaping how we live now. This is your introduction to the most word-changing stories, art, and ideas that Classics has to offer.
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Has Homer's Ithaca been found at last?
And then, that hour the star rose up,
the clearest, brightest star, that always heralds
the newborn light of day, the deep-sea-going ship
made landfall on the island . . . Ithaca, at last.
The Odyssey 13.105-117, trans. Robert Fagles
T...
America's Roman Revolution
The Founders’ Rome
I spent America’s 250th birthday, and incidentally my own 28th, in New York. It was 39°C (102°F) and humid. A friend had, mercifully, invited a few of us up to his place in Connecticut; a low-slung mid-century house buil...
Bread, Circuses, and the Claw
The leader sits at the side of the arena. Beside him, his consort and heirs. Behind him, the most powerful men in the state. Beyond the seats of honour, thousands of citizens have gathered to pay their respects to the Great Man, feel the th...
Stoic advice on how to deal with the malevolent spirits which haunt your new home
Athenodorus motioned with his hand that it should wait a little and, turning back, re-applied himself to his wax-tablets and pen, writing as the ghost rattled its great, clanging chains above his head.
Athenodorus and the ghost face off in...
Was this the key to Julius Caesar's victory?
On the 10th of January 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, a shallow river that separated his province of Cisalpine Gaul from Italy. In leading his armies across it Caesar effectively declared war on the Roman state. The die, as he pu...
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Honor Cargill-Martin is an author, classicist and art historian from London. She is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Oxford. Her first non-fiction book tells the story of the scandalous Roman empress Messalina.
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