

Love Island comes to a climax tonight but don’t feel bereft — there’s years of classical history to delve into where the sex was far hotter

Lies and witty truisms illuminate an unreliable memoir, says Daisy Dunn

Elitism in the Games goes back to the ancient Greeks, when to win was all about glory and shows of strength

For Johnson the case for Brexit is based on a view that the EU is just a sorry modern version of ancient Rome

Rollicking history of the first Roman emperors. By Daisy Dunn

Daisy Hay’s erudite yet enchanting new book focuses on the complicated marriage of Benjamin Disraeli