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Showing posts with label Latin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 May 2025

A Writer's Diary

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  I've written a little diary over on my Substack.     
Thursday, 16 January 2025

Out of the Silent Planet? A tentative note on the Fauns' names in Prince Caspian

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    Some years ago, when teaching C S Lewis to undergraduates at university, I re-read the Narnia novels, and was puzzled by a list of names...
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Thursday, 30 September 2021

Review of How to Teach Classics to Your Dog on Classics for All

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The website Classics for All, which promotes the teaching of Classics in schools, has published a lovely review of How to Teach Classics to ...
Friday, 10 September 2021

Interview with Perlego about How to Teach Classics to Your Dog

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  I've been interviewed by Lucy Hoyle of Perlego, about How to Teach Classics to Your Dog , will be published in paperback soon. Here...
Friday, 2 October 2020

Audiobook of How to Teach Classics to Your Dog

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 I had oodles of fun recording the audiobook for How to Teach Classics to Your Dog . You can now buy it from Audible, here.
Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Finished copies of HOW TO TEACH CLASSICS TO YOUR DOG

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   Finished copies of How to Teach Classics to Your Dog have arrived - they look absolutely beautiful.  "Engaging and funny and clever....
Thursday, 23 July 2020

Proof of How to Teach Classics to Your Dog

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Ecce! Proofs have arrived of How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, which will be published in October by Oneworld. " Philip Womack and Una...
Tuesday, 27 March 2018

THE ARROW OF APOLLO: CHARACTERS: Aeneas

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Aeneas fleeing Troy (Barocci) THE ARROW OF APOLLO by Philip Womack Characters 1. AENEAS Aeneas was a Trojan prince. His fathe...
Monday, 19 March 2018

The Homecomings: The "Nostoi": The background to The Arrow of Apollo

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The Trojan War itself lasted for 10 years. The story of how the siege was eventually won is famous: the horse that was built and left on ...
Monday, 23 October 2017

The Arrow of Apollo by Philip Womack launches on Unbound

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Today is a great day: I have launched The Arrow of Apollo on Unbound, the wonderful crowd-funding publisher. I'm very excited about ...
Monday, 10 April 2017

Latin graffiti in Cambridge: "Locus in domos loci populum"

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Romani ite domum: Life of Brian I've written about Google Translate and Latin before ( see here ); I never thought the day would com...
Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Catullus' Bedspread by Daisy Dunn: Review for The Spectator

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I've reviewed Catullus' Bedspread by Daisy Dunn for The Spectator . Read it here.
Thursday, 1 August 2013

Horace and Me by Harry Eyres: Review in The Telegraph

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Horace: a poet of the middle age I seem to have forgotten to put up a link to my review of Harry Eyres' book, Horace and Me , an ami...
Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard: review

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Homer reading: This is what classics is like Salve! I've reviewed Mary Beard's collection of, um, reviews, for The Daily Telegra...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome by Kathryn Tempest: Party

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Yes, and in a small club off the Charing Cross road there were indeed scenes of Verrine proportions this evening, as classicists convened fo...
Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Killed the King of the Dragon: Google Latin Translate

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Ave amici! In one of Life of Brian's funniest scenes, a Roman goes up to Brian as he's graffitiing a wall. 'Romanes eunt domus...
Tuesday, 28 December 2010

Books of the Year: Day Three: Recent Non-Fiction

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Hello! And welcome! On this third day of my bumptastic books of the year, I give to you a selection of recent non-fiction. Which, er, for ob...
Sunday, 5 December 2010

Ovid and Sophocles: They've Done it Again

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The weekend was spent buried deep in various texts, for various reasons; as I truffled through them I did come up with this: 'saepe p...
Saturday, 23 October 2010

Mysteries of Auster

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Auster means the south wind in Latin; it's also the surname of a very popular author. I was asked to review his new novel, Sunset Park, ...
Thursday, 15 July 2010

That Naughty Verres, and A Certain Mr Satoshi

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I was reading some Cicero the other day, in particular his superlatively nasty speech against the general Verres, on trial for extortion and...