Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, and A Thousand Ships as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about Ancient Greek ...

Bestselling author, stand-up comedian, and broadcaster Natalie Haynes is the closest thing the world of classical academia has to a rock star. Haynes read Classics at Cambridge University before ...

Natalie is a guest contributor for The Independent and writes. She was a guest contributor for The Times from 2006 - 2010. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times ...

The worst dinner party in history. Natalie investigates the work of the writer Petronius, creator of the infamous Satyricon, later made into a film by Fellini. It's all about excess; as a vegetarian, ...

It's Erasmus' fault, for a 16th century mistranslation. Four more series of Natalie Haynes's BBC Radio 4 show taking a comic look at the ancient world. Author, broadcaster and 'rock star classicist' ...

Natalie Haynes considers the work of the Roman poet Virgil, ranging from his hints on bee-keeping to his great work The Aeneid. Dido is the classic wronged woman and the Aeneid contains the best ...