17 November, 2018
The Profit in Asphodel
Hesiod, tr. A. E. Stallings, Works and Days
Category: Classics
31 March, 2015
Cold Pastoral?
Fergus McGhee traces the fortunes of an ancient Greek idea
The Shock of the Old
Jenny Messenger explores the British Museum's outstanding exhibition of ancient Greek art
25 November, 2013
Twenty-First Century Heroines
Clare Pollard entwines her own poetic voice with that of Ovid's in this new translations of love letters from mythological women, writes Helena Taylor.
The Holy Oxen of Egypt
Inwood and Woolf's new translation reclaims and gives voice to an under-read, but important, Aristotelian text, argues Nakul Krishna.
8 July, 2013
Translating the Untranslatable
In recovering the contexts of Thucydides's history, Jeremy Mynott faces the perennial challenges of translation.
17 February, 2013
Blow Up Media Studies
Emma Park takes umbrage with Toby Miller's gunpowder plot for the humanities as we know it.
22 October, 2012
The Supreme Leader
Katie Low assesses Aloys Winterling's biography of Caligula, a young man exulting in the possession of enormous power.
