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Mary Beard: 'Slavery, misogyny ... the ancient world has got some pretty nasty stuff'

Renowned British classicist Mary Beard says we can all still learn from antiquity, but warns against excessive reverence.

Mary Beard suggests ‘tweaks’ to British Museum’s handling of queues to see Bayeux tapestry

Classicist and museum trustee visited the line after people complained of waiting for hours, with some turned awayMary Beard has intervened in the row about excessively long queues...

I read 163 novels and these are the six best: Mary Beard on judging the Booker prize

I found being a Booker judge hugely rewarding. All the works on our shortlist will change how you see the world• This year’s Booker prize shortlistAs a Booker judge, I think I have...

Solving A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mystery: Parchment Fragments That Surprisingly Survived In The Egyptian Sands

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Roman law expert from the University of Cincinnati has edited and translated a Latin legal text that was pieced together from fragments buried i...

A bestselling classicist embarks on a fresh odyssey

Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate Homer, offers a series of essays that examine modern interpretations of ancient literature.

Glimpses into lives of Roman suburbanites in Bath revealed in rare finds

Exclusive: Restoration work at Bath Assembly Rooms unearths Roman ditches containing pottery, coins and fragments of a military helmetThe restoration of a Georgian building in Bath...

The Bayeux tapestry: why more women should be stitched into the fabric of history | Letters

Readers respond to the loan of the Bayeux tapestry I enjoyed your photograph of Andy Burnham, Macron and King Charles admiring the Bayeux tapestry and the king’s comment about the...

From bling and birds to ‘really fancy armour’ – the best dressed characters of the Bayeux tapestry

Medieval experts talk us through the fashion of the near-1,000-year-old embroidered work, and what it says about the characters wearing itDon’t get Fashion Statement delivered to y...

Emily Wilson Chooses Her Words Carefully

The Homeric scholar’s new book on translation is bitingly smart.

Bayeux tapestrymania has gripped Britain. But what does it say about our own age of war and upheaval? | Charlotte Higgin...

The tapestry is drawing crowds to the British Museum – and each person who sees it will draw a different meaning from this epic, vivid artworkI have seen the Bayeux tapestry four t...

Ancient revenge porn: When sex became a weapon

Ancient Rome lacked the digital infrastructure of modern revenge porn, but had a striking historical parallel: Romans routinely weaponized sex to shame, discredit, and exert power...

A Feminist Humanist’s Last Word

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – classical myth burns into modern England

Theatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisabl...