Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more! Today I’m giving you, in what’s quickly becoming a pretty personal look at some reading matter you might want to explore before you make it to university, some Roman history tips. It’s difficult to encapsulate all the comings and goings of Rome and its empire which…Continue Reading Reading Listicles §4: Wherever I may Rome – Ian Goh
Reading Listicles §3: Read like an Egyptian – Ian Goh
Last week I said I’d have some reading tips for you budding Egyptologists. This is actually a difficult task, not only because I’m not an expert on ancient Egypt myself, but also because ‘ancient Egyptian civilisation’ stretches back as distant from the time of, say, the ancient Athenians themselves as they are from us. I…Continue Reading Reading Listicles §3: Read like an Egyptian – Ian Goh
Reading Listicles Two: Ancient Greece – Ian Goh
Yesterday I promised some Greek history reading tips. I think it’s fair to say from the outset that my colleagues and I would like to complicate the influential but oversimplified saying of Edgar Allan Poe which observes ‘the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome’. AA book which you can borrow and…Continue Reading Reading Listicles Two: Ancient Greece – Ian Goh
Reading Listicles: A First Salvo – Ian Goh
Hi! I’m Ian Goh, Admissions Tutor for Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at Swansea University. So, you’re casting about for stuff to read in preparation for university? Over a series of something like a week or so of blogposts, I’m going to share some of my colleagues’ suggestions of some books that we’ve found over…Continue Reading Reading Listicles: A First Salvo – Ian Goh