Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Tomb of Eurysaces – the man who made his fortune by baking bread

I’m a huge fan of the Tomb of Eurysaces. I first encountered it in books as a classical archaeology student, when I studied it in some depth and it became one of the topics I felt most at ease answering … Continue reading

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Eat, Pray, Love – not worth sitting through even for the shots of Rome

A while back I reported that Julia Roberts was to star in an adaptation of the Elizabeth Gilbert novel Eat Pray Love, a fact I was looking forward to on account of the fact that a third of the film … Continue reading

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