Articles on the ancient world

Medusa at the edge of Empire

Adam Parker

The Empress Messalina

Teenage nymphomaniac or smooth operator?

Peta Greenfield and Fiona Radford

A temple for all the gods

The Pantheon in Rome

Josho Brouwers

Body-armour of glued linen?

The origin of the idea of glued linen armour

Sean Manning

Drink, talk, and praise the gods!

Cultural aspects of the Athenian symposium

Daniel Woon

Incompetent or scapegoat?

Publius Quinctilius Varus and the AD 9 “Varus Disaster”

Jo Ball

Sir Orfeo and Heurodis

A medieval take on the story of Orpheus

Josho Brouwers

Exekias and the Aithiopis

Scenes from a lost epic on two black-figure amphoras

Matthew Lloyd

Nisus and Euryalus

Poetry as philosophy

Harrison Voss

History as inspiration, part 4

Halo and the ancient world

Josho Brouwers

Atalanta wrestling Peleus

A black-figure hydria from the Manchester Museum

Owen Rees

Assassin’s Creed: Origins

Exploring Ptolemaic Egypt

Josho Brouwers