Art
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Writing on the Wall
David J Breeze constructs a history of the different theories about Hadrian’s Wall – who constructed it, when and why?
7 min |
July/August 2016
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Standing up for the Classics
Lindsay Fulcher talks to the writer, broadcaster and lapsed comedian Natalie Haynes, who makes the ancient world not only accessible to a modern audience but relevant, funny and fascinating.
9 min |
July/August 2016
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A Capital Architect
Dr Frances Sands tells us about Robert Adam, the fashionable 18th-century architect whose exquisite plans and designs, inspired by Classical ruins he saw on his Grand Tour and made for London clients, are currently on show at Sir John Soane’s Museum.
8 min |
January/February 2017
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Memories of Antiquity
Dominic Green gives us a preview of an exhibition about to open at the Getty Center in Los Angeles that shows us how the ancient world was viewed through medieval eyes.
10 min |
January/February 2017
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Last Supper In Pompeii
The Romans’ passion for fine dining is well known – now a mouth-watering new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum shows how the production, distribution and consumption for food and wine coloured every aspect of Roman life, as its curator Paul Roberts explains
9 min |
July/August 2019
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In The Lap Of Luxury
As the Getty Villa in Malibu displays original artefacts from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum for the first time, Geraldine Fabrikant explains how the ancient villa was built for a rich Roman in the 1st century BC, buried in AD 79 by the Vesuvian eruption, rediscovered in 1750 and recreated by J Paul Getty during the 1970s
8 min |
July/August 2019
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Under The Volcano
Theresa Thompson investigates the history of a very hot subject, which can have cataclysmic results, at a new exhibition in Oxford.
10 min |
March/April 2017 Volume 28 Number 2
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Rendlesham Revealed
Archaeologists Faye Minter, Jude Plouviez and Christopher Scull have worked, together with four tireless detectorists, to locate, uncover and excavate the site of an important 7th-century Anglo-Saxon royal settlement in south-east Suffolk.
10 min |
March/April 2017 Volume 28 Number 2
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This Mysterious Monument
David Miles leafs through recent books on Stonehenge to see what’s new and what’s not.
9 min |
March/April 2017 Volume 28 Number 2
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Divine Boy Causes No Offence In Oxford
Antinous went from country boy to the firm favourite of the Emperor Hadrian (AD 11738) to cult figure in just a few years and, since his death in AD 130 (he drowned in the River Nile), he has been commemorated in busts and statues and on coins and medals. Now, he is celebrated at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
3 min |
November/December 2018 Volume 29 Number 6
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A Tale Of Four Cities
It is far too dangerous to visit four of the ancient worlds most splendid cities (Palmyra, Aleppo, Mosul and Leptis Magna) but Nicole Benazeth travels through time and space to see them in a state-of-the-art virtual exhibition at LInstitut du monde arabe in Paris.
8 min |
November/December 2018 Volume 29 Number 6
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Found In Translation
Professor Emily Wilson tells Lucia Marchini how she dealt with the intricacies of translating Homers great epic poem the Odyssey.
10+ min |
November/December 2018 Volume 29 Number 6
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On Site At Sardis
Ismail Mardin reports back after spending time with Professor Nicholas Cahill and his team who are using both traditional and cutting-edge scientific methods to explore and analyse the site of the Lydian capital in Turkey and the many diverse finds unearthed there.
9 min |
November/December 2018 Volume 29 Number 6
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Meet A New Hero
Christian Cameron, the Canadian fiction writer and historical re-enactor of ‘experimental archaeology’ tells Roger Williams what inspired him to write books set in the ancient world after a career as an intelligence officer in the US Navy
9 min |
May/June 2019
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Hearts Of Oak
Caroline Spearing traces the history of a tree rooted in English national identity, which saved the monarchy, and that the ancient Greeks held sacred to Zeus, the father of the gods, especially at his oracle in Dodona
8 min |
May/June 2019
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Genius In Genes
Those Deans are everywhere.
3 min |