About
I began my journey into the ancient world through literature, reciting a passage from Macbeth in Epidauros and managing to find entertainment in a truly awful amateur dramatic performance of Euripides’ Hecuba (one review identified Odysseus as being ‘more wooden than the stage’). Literature was where I planned to stay until a happy accident led to me falling down the rabbit hole of ancient history, beginning with a five-minute presentation on a tree at the start of my Masters’ and culminating in my first book, Trees in Ancient Rome, based on my PhD thesis and written during lockdown.