The popular image of Socrates as a man of immense moral integrity was largely the creation of his pupil Plato. If we examine evidence of his trial, argues Robin Waterfield, a different picture emerges, of a cunning politician opposed to Athenian democracy.
Robert Garland considers the meaning of fame and celebrity to the Greeks and Romans.
Robert Garland asks what murder meant to the apparently bloodthirsty Greeks and Romans.
Jeri DeBrohun looks at the meanings expressed in the style of clothes and personal adornment adopted by men and women in the ancient world.
Paul Cartledge explores the differences between today’s interpretation of the Olympic Games and their significance in the ancient world
Richard Cavendish marks the start of a landmark archaeological project, on March 23rd 1900
The Battle of Marathon has long been presented as the decisive moment at which Greeks led by the newly democratic Athenians gained the upper hand over the despotic Persians. Barry Baldwin reappraises the battle, and explains why it is still a byword for endurance.
Graham Shipley meets the dead in a Greek cemetery - an oasis of classicism in modern Athens.
A look at a new exhibition in Venice, which shows the flow of culture between East and West in early Greece.
Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.
