Welcome to the Classical world.
Scheming rulers and radical philosophers, political factionalism and love poetry, every-day life and world-changing ideas. The ancient Mediterranean world was a place of contradictions, and it was also the birthplace of Western culture.
I’ll be sharing stories, characters, ideas, and art from the Classical world - as well as delving into questions about their formation. This was the material which formed the basis of the Classical education system for more than a millennium and - like it or not - on which much of Western culture, politics, and thought was built. And it’s extremely good fun.
This newsletter is researched and written by Honor Cargill-Martin, an author, classicist and art historian from London. She is currently studying for a PhD on Ancient Roman political sex scandals at the University of Oxford.
If you want more content you can also get a copy of her biography of the scandalous Roman empress Messalina (The Sunday Times Book of the Week and one of Waterstones’ Best Books of 2023) - out now in all (good) bookshops.
