Teaching Classics

Gods and Monsters in the Odyssey

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our…

Why Frodo and Achilles are so infuriating to a modern audience, by Harry Richards

Why every Classicist needs to read: M R Carey’s The Girl With All The Gifts

Why every Classicist needs to read: Natalie Haynes’ The Amber Fury, by Amy Thompson

Brexio, Brexis, Brexit: Globalisation and the Roman Republic.

The enduring appeal of Classics

I wrote this as part of my course launch in June 2014 to explain to students why they should consider Classical Civilisation as an A level choice.

Some people have this idea that The Classics (a convenient catch-all phrase for Latin and Greek…

Why every Classicist needs to read: ‘The Night Raid’ and ‘Queen of the Silver Arrow’ by Caroline Lawrence

Romeo’s Achilles Heel: a literary comparison of Achilles and Romeo