The long reign of the Caesars
Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.
ByClassics
Natalie Haynes and the classics as comfort blanket
The ninth series of this show is airing on Radio 4 – and it’s the perfect listen for bleak winter…
By
Christopher Nolan’s Zeus complex
The Odyssey is the perfect canvas for the director’s obsession with power and time.
By
Megalopolis’s bad history
The Roman Republic is a lazy analogy for the modern political condition.
By
What the Greeks teach us about suicide
The great tragedians’ writings on suffering, stigma and survival can help guide our own struggles with assisted dying.
By
Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising”
The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
By
How AE Stallings joined Oxford’s professor of poetry canon
The playful, unpredictable poet knows she is an outsider entering a male-dominated corpus.
By
Latin and Greek are not just for the elite
Studying classics has many values, not least helping you spot when charlatan politicians cover their deficiencies with Cicero quotes.
By
The meaning of Taxi Driver
Impressions on re-watching Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 film.
By
Boris Johnson’s claim that the Roman empire fell due to “uncontrolled immigration” is wrong – and dangerous
The PM is selling a version of history that doesn’t exist, a world where the West equals good and immigrants…
By
It’s time to admit that Pulp Fiction is a bad film
It’s time we recognised that Quentin Tarantino’s much-lauded movie is about nothing, says nothing and makes you feel nothing.
By