ancient Greek
Learning to speak Latin and Ancient Greek can save civilisation
Finally, some good news from Oxford. The university has recently been through a gloomy patch. It slipped from the top…
A boon for classicists
The great Latinist D.R. Shackleton Bailey was once said to have been pinned into a corner at a party and…
Where did ‘decuman’ come from?
‘What made you chase that hare?’ asked my husband with rare geniality. John Ruskin was to blame. He asked James…
Poetic injustice
‘Why do another translation of Homer?’ Richmond Lattimore asked in the foreword to his own great translation of the Iliad…
