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The encounters of young academics with professional laundries (Letters, April 19) are indeed sometimes unhappy. When I was writing my doctoral thesis in Oxford one local establishment presented me with [...]

Whether or not philosophers are 'typically angelic' (Letters, November 17), perhaps a few of them are. To take the first handful from the list in Ross Best's letter, Socrates died [...]

There is another possible solution to the problem of evil that is a little milder than true atheism (Letters, May 5). Some of the ancient Epicureans were happy to acknowledge [...]

Josef Kessler is right (Letters, October 2) that the pursuit of Classics cannot decently be conducted in ignorance of Wilamowitz and Nietzsche. But what of the plight of those who [...]

You have opened the gates (Letters, December 13). For example, the Encyclopaedia of Oxford lists forty-nine poets with connections to Oxford, from Sir Philip Sidney on, adding that 'the list [...]

Sir,--Richard Bachmann is utterly captivated when reading an Iris Murdoch novel, but after a couple of days can remember nothing of the work (Letters, August 9). Murdoch is not the [...]

Sir,--James Smith appears sceptical (Letters, January 4) that anyone would wish to read 'the Jack Reacher novel that liberates its hero from a hateful atavism'. As often, the Greeks offer [...]

Sir,--Joyce Milne (Letters, April 29) is perhaps too quick to defend Daisy Dunn's translation of fututiones in Catullus 32 as 'fucks'. 'Fucks' is certainly urgent and striking, but, as Helen [...]

Sir,--J. H. C. Leach (Letters, June 12) finds J. Wight Duff's translation of Aeneid 1.462 unsurpassed. No Classical poet would object to the sentiment that 'Tears haunt the world', which [...]