Roman emperors and football managers

Published: May 16, 2018, 11 p.m.

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The world is being slowly poisoned, the environment destroyed. Why don\\u2019t we care about such an apocalypse more? Clare Saxby joins us to discuss; Mary Beard considers the cultural legacy of Caligula, that most reviled of all emperors, via a revisionist work of fiction told from the perspective of the emperor\'s exiled sister; as Ars\\xe8ne Wenger\'s twenty-two year tenure as Arsenal manager draws to a close, the TLS\'s History editor and Arsenal fan David Horspool shares his thoughts on football\'s modern myth-making


Books  


Mourning Nature: Hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief, edited by Ashlee and Karen Landman Cunsolo

Walking on Lava: Selected works for uncivilised times, edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul Kingsnorth

Energy Humanities: An anthology, edited by Imre Szeman and Dominic Boyer

Caligula by Simon Turney



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