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I walked into the Bridge Theatre in London on Saturday not entirely sure what I was expecting from Simon Stone’s Oresteia. I know Aeschylus’ Oresteia pretty well - professionally. It’s a trilogy I’ve lived with for decades, ever since seeing Peter Hall’s famously austere National Theatre production in 1981 and then reading or teaching (I think) all of it over the years, some in Greek and all in translation. At seventeen I was frankly overwhelmed by Hall’s production with its

Recently, I got on at Mornington Crescent Underground Station in London, and I paused to show my daughter one of the small labyrinth plaques that now adorn every station on the Underground network. They were designed by artist Mark Wallinger (he of the London Olympics 'Cauldron') and installed to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, and they depict a winding path leading towards a centre. 270 of them were originally made, one for each station; with the additi

Each year I keep a record of the number, type and location of posts for Classics teachers, basing the figures on published adverts in the Times Educational Supplement, the Teacher Vacancies website run by the Department for Education and (occasionally) other sources, such as direct communication from a school. My key words are Classics, Latin and Greek. Details are collected from 1st September to 31st August. Most of the schools which advertise in this way are secondary; a fe