Steven Hunt

Agrippa, the new novel by Robert Harris, is a supposed autobiography of the famous Roman general Marcus Agrippa, right hand man and personal friend of the Emperor Augustus, and military genius behind many of his victories, including the Battle of Actium fought against Anthony and Cleopatra in 31BC which, as they say, changed the direction of history forever. The Augustus portrayed here is very much an antidote to that portrayed in the BBC I, Claudius TV series, where he comes

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150th anniversary of the London Underground, and they depict a winding path leading towards a centre. 270 of them were originally made, one for each station; with the additi