Classics and ancient history
Memento mori: a series about death
How to face the end of the world – according to Plato and the Stoics‘A vigorous apologist for a cruel emperor’: Is Caryl Churchill’s explosive new play about Trump and his press officers?
Patricia Easterling obituary
Classical scholar and the first woman to be appointed regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University
Brief letters
The American emperor’s new clothes?Brief letters: Trump’s toga | Reform UK donations | Ben Delo | Word watch | Andy Burnham | The name game
University Guide 2027
Best UK universities for classics & ancient history – league tableLanguage, history, culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome – includes Latin and classical Greek studies
‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey
Readers describe how Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has ignited or reawakened their interest in classical texts
Stateside with Kai and Carter
Mary Beard on The Odyssey and how empires fall – Stateside with Kai and CarterChristopher Nolan’s new adaption of The Odyssey is an absolute monster of a hit, grossing $264m in its opening weekend. But celebrated classicist Mary Beard tells host Carter Sherman that Nolan’s film adaptation is missing the original's 'elusive sexiness'
The truth about the next prime minister and the bond markets
Letter: Google search activity shows Andy Burnham has not put any upward pressure on borrowing costs, says Prof Costas Milas
Letter: Dame Averil Cameron obituary
Tom Stubbs writes: Averil Cameron will be remembered not just for her intellect, but also for her kindness and patience
Dame Averil Cameron obituary
Other lives
Ted Read obituary
TV review
Civilisations: Rise and Fall review – TV that will make you despair for our own plummeting societyThe mightily stressful and incredibly close-to-the-bone BBC show traces the demise of four ancient worlds – and it’s wildly prescient stuff. Will we never learn?
Move over, gender studies: the conservative tide coming for US universities
Weatherwatch
Weatherwatch: Myths behind the capricious god of the north wind
University Guide 2026
Best UK universities for classics & ancient history – league tableLanguage, history, culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome – includes Latin and classical Greek studies
Penelope Mountjoy obituary
Other lives
Christopher Rowe obituary
Cambridge University appoints first Jewish professor of Hebrew
Prof Aaron Koller hopes to broaden appeal of Hebrew and move away from it being seen as ‘a political thing’
Classicists take ‘ancient philosophical wisdom’ into English jails
Other lives
Alan Clague obituary
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Stateside with Kai and CarterMary Beard on The Odyssey and how empires fall – Stateside with Kai and CarterChristopher Nolan’s new adaption of The Odyssey is an absolute monster of a hit, grossing $264m in its opening weekend. But celebrated classicist Mary Beard tells host Carter Sherman that Nolan’s film adaptation is missing the original's 'elusive sexiness'
