Classical corner

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows