From the November 2020 Issue Fido, Fidas, Fidat How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans By Philip Womack LR
From the August 1988 Issue Life in them Old Bones? The Poets on the Classics By Stuart Gillespie Classical Genres and English Poetry By W H Race
From the June 1994 Issue With a Bit More Democracy We Might Hang Mr Howard Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought By Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
From the June 2017 Issue Fight Club The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece By Jennifer T Roberts LR
From the February 2016 Issue After Democritus Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World By Tim Whitmarsh
From the March 2003 Issue An Ancient Stew Around the Roman Table By Patrick Faas, Shaun Whiteside (trans.) LR
From the July 2004 Issue An Urban Adventure Athens: A History - From Ancient Ideal to Modern City By Robin Waterfield LR
From the August 2004 Issue The Life and Appetites of a Precocious Emperor Alexander the Great: The Hunt For A New Past By Paul Cartledge LR
From the September 2011 Issue Infamy, Infamy The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome’s Decadent Boy Emperor By Martijn Icks LR
From the July 2011 Issue Subject or Object The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean World By Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge LR
From the March 2011 Issue Codes of Honour Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins By J E Lendon LR
From the June 2010 Issue What Did They Do For Us? Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us By Ferdinand Mount LR
From the June 2009 Issue On the Edge The Empire Stops Here: A Journey along the Frontiers of the Roman World By Philip Parker LR
From the February 2009 Issue A Cock for Asclepius Why Socrates Died: Athens on Trial By Robin Waterfield LR
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