This Day in History – Troy is Sacked
According to the Greek mathematician and philosopher Eratosthenes, today marks the anniversary of the sack of Troy (1184 BCE). Now, while the Trojan War is an event shrined in myth and mystery (and its...
View ArticleCalling All “Wannabe” Archaeologists – Help Translate Papyrus Text
One-hundred years ago, archaeologists uncovered thousands of papyrus scraps in a rubbish pit at Oxyrhynchus. Many of those pieces remain untranslated. Scholars are calling on all arm-chair...
View ArticleAncient Wisdom – Why Study Classics? (via Jonathan Knott)
Club UK magzine, July 2011 I don’t like Cicero,’ says Rachel Cunliffe, a second-year undergraduate reading Classics at Cambridge University. ‘I think he was an arrogant so and so who thought he was...
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