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Classics

April 2024

  • Andrew Scott

    Audiobook of the week
    1984 by George Orwell audiobook review – a starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

    Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classic

January 2024

  • The deer statues at the entrance to Rhodes harbor at sunrise<br>Sunrise. Deer Rhodes Greece City of Rhodes Greece, Statues of fallow deer at the entrance to Mandraki

    Book of the day
    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes review – wonder lust

    From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a thrilling journey in the footsteps of the ancients

October 2023

  • Beard

    Book of the day
    Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard review – imperial exploits

    An enthralling analysis of the wild stories that circulated about Rome’s ruthless rulers

September 2023

  • Troy (2004) directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

    Book of the day
    The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson review – a bravura feat

    Six years on from her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson revels in the clarity and emotional clout of Homer’s battlefield epic
  • A bust of Nero looking into a mirror

    ‘We’re not the first generation to wonder how genuine our leaders are’: Mary Beard on politicians as performers

    From Nero to Sunak, leaders have always put on a show for the public. The scholar explores the notorious Roman emperor’s fondness for acting and how the stage became a metaphor for power itself
  • Eric Bana and Garrett Hedlund in the 2004 film Troy.

    ‘The Iliad may be ancient – but it’s not far away’: Emily Wilson on Homer’s blood-soaked epic

    Following her acclaimed translation of the Odyssey, Wilson has turned to Homer’s other, darker poem. She explains how she got stuck for six months – and why it speaks to today’s era of conflict

August 2023

  • A Babylonian plaque from around 1800BC that may be of Ishtar, a later manifestation of the goddess Inanna

    ‘Somehow I failed to clock her magnificence’: was the world’s first literary hero a woman?

    For centuries, Gilgamesh has been thought of as the world’s oldest literary hero – but does that title rightfully belong to the ancient goddess Inanna?

February 2023

  • A Bryde's whale feeding on anchovies in the Gulf of Thailand

    Ancient texts shed new light on mysterious whale behaviour that ‘captured imagination’

    An unusual feeding technique only recently observed by scientists was documented nearly 2,000 years ago, a study suggests

November 2022

  • Tiny Rowland with Mohamed Al-Fayed (right) in Harrods food hall.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about tycoons

    From rapacious businessmen to political power brokers, this literature extends from biographies of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Tiny Rowland to novels by Scott Fitzgerald and Preti Taneja
  • Persephonus is dragged off by Hadea in Gender Swapped Greek Myths.

    ‘It was exciting to create these beastly, huge, grotesque women’: the authors gender-swapping the Greek myths

    With its heroic female leads and men who long to be fathers, Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett’s new book looks at modern mores through an ancient lens
  • Irene Vallejo at a Roman theatre in Saragossa

    Books interview
    Philologist Irene Vallejo: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’

    The Spanish writer on how Papyrus, her bestselling history of literature in the ancient world, changed her life at a difficult moment, and why it’s a mistake to undervalue books

September 2022

  • Joyce Reynolds at the Necropolis of Cyrene, Libya

    Joyce Reynolds obituary

  • A detail from Caravaggio ‘s depiction of Medusa.

    If looks could kill: how Medusa became a potent political meme

July 2022

  • Godrevy lighthouse in St Ives bay.

    Flash of genius: how a Cornish lighthouse inspired Virginia Woolf’s fictional icon

    St Ives holiday home that planted the seed for English writer’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse has now earned a historic plaque
  • Excavation of the Agora, the ancient market-place, of Athens in the shadow of the Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane, 1931. As Peter Mackridge observed, learning more about classical Greece tended to eclipse later inhabitants of the same space.

    Peter Mackridge obituary

    Pioneer of Modern Greek studies in British universities fascinated by questions of language and identity
  • Don Quixote in Sanskrit book cover

    ‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion

    Translated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University library

June 2022

  • Charlotte Higgins watches Billie Eilish’s headline show on the Pyramid stage

    A classicist at Glastonbury: ‘Headbanging in raincoats? It’s as English as Gardeners’ Question Time’

    Our chief culture writer is a Glyndebourne veteran, but has never been to the world’s biggest music festival – so what did she make of the spectacle, the songs and the hedonism?

March 2022

  • Flags of Ukraine and Russia painted on cracked wall

    Five of the best books about Russia and Ukraine

    As Russia wages war, the historian Orlando Figes offers a guide to the literature that illuminates the tensions and the myths of the region

February 2022

  • Rossetti

    Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman review – myth in Georgian London

  • ‘The devil’s handwriting’ … part of the Tavistock letter, written in a shorthand dating from the 1700s that Dickens modified.

    Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did

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