Classics and ancient history
Dame Averil Cameron obituary
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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
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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
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Alan Clague obituary
State school pupils in England may have to drop GCSE Latin after funding pulled
Axing the Latin excellence scheme: a classic mistake
Latin can lay down skills that last a lifetime
‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics
Scrapping the Latin excellence programme is shortsighted
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David Harvey obituaryOther lives
Teresa Smith obituary
‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology
Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit
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