We look at some Roman Recipes and put them into practice in our Ancient Roman Bake Off videos

Discover how modern feminist theory effects our reading of Sophocles' Antigone

This guide has been put together by our team from top UK universities to help prospective students write a Classics personal statement.

Look at the parallels between the mythical world of Homer's Iliad and mechanised combat in World War One

Lady of Fortune, Mystery and Propaganda In the ancient world, Tyche (Gk. τύχη; Lat. Fortuna) was the goddess of fortune

You might well be wondering if there is any point in re-imagining laughs, chuckles and giggles from thousands of years ago

There is no Greek hero quite like Herakles. Son of Zeus, king of the Greek Pantheon, and a mortal woman by the name of Alcmene, Herakles...

This poster was created by Oxford Classicist Sophie Park

This article was written by Bella Green, a Classicist at Durham University. In the age of social media, where we are constantly bombarded...

An in-depth look at the rituals dedicated to the cult of Demeter and Persephone much of which still remain unknown to this day.

Our Summer School 2020 has now come to a close! We are immensely proud to have achieved what 5 months ago seemed fairly impossible. A...

Halfway recap of our second week Summer School!

A roundup of our successful first week of Summer School!

A progress report on how the Summer School is developing!

A detailed analysis of Euripides' tragedy the Trojan Women with the question of feminism in mind.

An insight into the life of a famous comedic playwright whose work would influence writers such as Shakespeare and Dante.

A detailed look at this famous statue of the emperor Augustus as a symbol of Roman imperialism and propaganda.

Clytemnestra and Penelope are no longer considered two wives waiting for their husbands to return from war, but individuals with pain.

If we want classics to survive, we need to confront how exclusionary it has been and is, and work towards making it more inclusive.

When we think about infidelity, the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope is perhaps among the last to spring to mind.