Here you’ll find an archive containing several years’ worth of past ‘weekend reading’ posts, with the most recent at the top. Each one contains a list of links to the notable classical news stories of the week, along with my own ramblings. Enjoy!
Under Review, 23/10/20
Casting and Recasting, 16/10/20
TV and Shopping, 9/10/20
Bring Me Sunshine, 2/10/20
Art for Art’s Sake, 25/9/20
Welcoming New Friends, 18/9/20
Positive Thoughts, 11/9/20
Making Preparations, 4/9/20
Morris and Horace, 28/8/20
Sorry, Old Books! 21/8/20
Playing Romans, 14/8/20
Summer Fun, 31/7/20
The Masked Classicist, 24/7/20
The Love of Loebs, 17/7/20
A Nice Problem to Have, 10/7/20
Television Time, 3/7/20
Not Buying Books, 26/6/20
In a Fog, 19/6/20
Discomfort and Diversity, 12/6/20
Happy Birthday CSS! 5/6/20
Making Hay, 29/5/20
Home Latining, 22/5/20
Pick up a Penguin, 15/5/20
Ignoring Reality, 8/5/20
The Sadness of Endings, 1/5/20
Lockdown Learning, 24/4/20
As Time Goes By, 17/4/20
Fun and Rainbows, 10/4/20
Turning to Horace, 3/4/20
Baking and Piranhas, 27/3/20
The Distance Between Us, 20/3/20
Welcome Home! 13/3/20
The Love of Lost Books, 6/3/20
Anything You Can Do… 28/2/20
Joining the Pantheon, 21/2/20
Love and Romans, 14/2/20
Out Of Office, 7/2/20
From Ascanius to Higgins, 31/1/20
A Tour of Troy, 24/1/20
The January Blues, 17/1/20
Wouldn’t it be Loverly? 10/1/20
The Quirks of Memory, 3/1/20
Goodbye 2019! 20/12/19
Finding your Happy Thought, 13/12/19
An Inconvenience of Camels, 6/12/19
Elizabeth or Elissabeth? 29/11/19
The Stylish Classicist’s Christmas List, 22/11/19
And The Award Goes To… 15/11/19
Sage on the Stage at the Sage, 8/11/19
Histories and Testaments, 1/11/19
A Pontypandy Aeneid, 25/10/19
Caesar’s Secrets, 18/10/19
Competitive Classics, 11/10/19
London, baby! 4/10/19
The Ubiquity of Myth, 27/9/19
The Sandancer’s Dinglehopper, 20/9/19
Too Much News, 13/9/19
What Would Tacitus Say? 6/9/19
An Open Question, 23/8/19
The Life of Brian, 16/8/19
Raining, Cats and Hogs, 9/8/19
On Leisure and Libraries, 2/8/19
The Prime Minister’s Cheese-Box, 26/7/19
Myth and Mermaids, 19/7/19
Dolce et Decorum Est, 12/7/19
A Website Anniversary, 5/7/19
The Man in Black, 28/6/19
Raising a Smile, 21/6/19
The Rain it Raineth, 14/6/19
Resurrecting Mrs Trimmer, 7/6/19
Summer is Coming, 31/5/19
Climbing the Walls, 24/5/19
Fun with Voynich, 17/5/19
Classics and Sci-Fi, 10/5/19
Awards and Events, 3/5/19
Happy Birthday to OU! 26/4/19
Bunny Bones, 19/4/19
Myth and Whisky, 12/4/19
Latin for non-Romans, 5/4/19
Living in a Material World, 29/3/19
Chocolate and Archaeology, 22/3/19
The Pain of Retraining, 15/3/19
Women and Books, 8/3/19
Pondering Myth, 1/3/19
Lego and Authority, 22/2/19
The Barateid, 15/2/19
School Reports, 8/2/19
A Four-Tunic Day, 1/2/19
Too Much Indiana Jones? 25/1/19
Apologies to Homer, 18/1/19
Conference and Controversy, 11/1/19
Taking a Break, 21/12/18
Romans on Stage, 14/12/18
A Classicist Christmas List, 7/12/18
Classicists in the Library, 30/11/18
Hidden Empresses, 23/11/18
Secret Identities, 16/11/18
A Round of Applause, 9/11/18
Shipwrecks, Scrolls and Skeletons, 26/10/18
Volcanic Eruptions, 19/10/18
Classical Lego, 12/10/18
Dissertation Thoughts, 6/10/18
Learning from SATs, 28/9/18
Welcome, new Classicists! 21/9/18
Judging the Undergraduate Awards, 14/9/18
Visiting Regina, 7/9/18
Being Alternative, 31/8/18
One Step Forward…? 24/8/18
Advancing Diversity, 17/8/18
Irrational Fear of Mangled Greek, 10/8/18
Holiday Classicism, 3/8/18
The Dog Days of Summer, 27/7/18
What’s in a Name? 20/7/18
No Escape from Football! 13/7/18
Binge-watching Cicero, 6/7/18
Dramatic Exits, 29/6/18
And so it begins… 22/6/18
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