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Year 12 Classics Essay Competitions 2022
Blogging in 2021
Catching my Breath
Eulogy for a Mother
Year 12 Classics Essay Competitions 2021
Trithemius, and how not to revise
Every Jot and Tittle: Boris Johnson and Matthew’s Gospel
Roman Skin Colour
Love Minus Zero: an attempt at Dylanology
Being Solon (in the classroom)
On the A level fiasco
Deeds, not Words
Clearing my Shelves
Caesar’s Prose
Did you ask a rhetorical question, Euripides?
Not Contrary to Mary: the Art of Criticism
Consuetudo loquendi est in motu
Sewers and Octopodes
St Augustine on ancient Troy
Just another day on the Via Sacra
Favourite Reads of 2019 (2)
Favourite reads of 2019 (1)
Gadamer and the Greeks
On Leaving
Boys and Books
Kadmos’ Wager
Oedipus in Art
Oedipus the Athenian
Oedipus the Hero
Miss Beale and Miss Buss
Tyranny and the Problem with Peisistratos
Democracy and Knowledge
Questions, Answers and the Teaching of History
Vegetarianism in First century Rome with Sotion and Seneca
Childcare in Ancient Rome: Man’s Work?
Historical Questions in St Albans
An Ancient Christian Ritual in WH Auden
Martha Nussbaum’s Socrates
The Languages that made Latin
Against Sophistry: Philosophers and Politics in Plato’s Republic
The State is Like a Ship: on Plato’s Critique of the Athenian Democracy
Democracy and the Totalitarian Threat, from Plato to Popper via Arginusae
Wilde’s Inferno: Reading Dante in Reading Gaol
The ‘cives’ of the Admiralty Arch
Talking through Dido: the failure of forthright tenderness in Aeneid 6
Must Criticism be Constructive?
Bassani’s Etruscans
Theseus the Democrat
Oakeshott on Classical Education
Ginsberg meets Ovid
Tears for things
Discovering some Cognitive Psychology
Educating the whole person in Victorian Oxford
The last lesson of term
Rugby Time
Reading the Aeneid with teenagers
Siena, Genoa and St George
A Tragic Sequel
Armenian Apricots
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