Andrew C. Fox

You're building your tomb, Paulus, so your fame can last forever. But don't you know? Even tombs can die. John Owen, 1669, 1.57...

Ancient History, and Classics moreso, is a white-dominated field. When a laptop had a bottle of coca cola knocked over it by a passer by...

By request of Esther Meijer. Esther is a PhD candidate at Durham University, UK. She works on the use of water and rivers as a conduit of...

As promised in a previous Tree of the Week, we're moving onto a spear that grew into a tree, albeit a week later than anticipated. When I...

I know that I promised a post about a spear-tree this week, but it's turning into quite a long one, so here's a placeholder, all about my...

New week, new tree! After the birch last week, we're moving to another ornamental tree, the plane, or platanus. Unlike the birch, there...

This week, the birch. There's not much to say about the birch in Latin literature, and that's largely because Latin literature does not...

I promised myself when COVID-19 started to spread around the planet that I would not do what so many others have done, and produce my...

Bonus tree of the week this week, to make up for the absence of one last week. This time, the history of topiary. Topiary, or the art of...

This week, we take a look at the humble box. Sorry, folks. Had to. I'm a Dad. Right, the buxus, or box. More commonly used today for...

Ok, so I'm cheating here. Not one month in, and I'm cheating. But the Trojan Horse is a critical example of why it is so helpful to...

The fir tree, or abies in Latin, is one of the most recognised trees in the world, thanks to its role during Christmas celebrations...

Last week, we discussed the Ruminal fig tree, and its life on the slopes of the Palatine hill, outside the Lupercal. There, it was a...

It seems only right that the first Tree of the Week should be the first tree that any Roman came across in the city's history. When...