The chicest guide to classical gifts
‘Tis the Greetings of the season time and all day long I’m smiling. Yes, you’re right the most classy classical gift guide is back.
Looking good
Rule the diamond. Rule the streets.
The small sports team who have captured everyone’s hearts, the Rome Emperor’s caps were also a popular accessory at the last Paris fashion week.
Look the whole 18 cubits
This Sobek-inspired collab between Lacoste and Comme des Garçons, Asymmetric shirt spot on.
Hermes x Anubis
Nothing says Christmas chic better than a vintage hermes scarf. This particular was designed by Vladimir Rybaltchenko in 1976 when Tutmania was all the rage.
A stylish black T-shirt with everyone’s favourite Roman Emperor (from RedBubbel).
Very rock ‘n’ roll librarian.
Gifting owls to Athens
Say you love them with a gorgeous gold necklace with lucky Athens charm.
Bringing it all home
Cushions for the snug
A delicious addition from perennial favourite Penreath and Hall.
This is produced in collaboration with Fine Cell Work, a social enterprise who work with prison inmates.
Write them together
Dante put the murderers of Caesar in the lowest ring of Hell, so where do you think you’ll end up if you use this. Combining humour and timeless style, this bust of Caesar also doubles as a nifty penholder. Available from Etsy.
A cat for Christmas
A cute ceramic cat from the British Museum shop, inspired by an Egyptian original.
Give them a hand
A ceramic replica of an item in Sigmund Freud’s collection, perhaps a ‘Hand of Sabazios’.
Leaping bull
A bijou bronze inspired by the Minoan bull friezes from Knossos.
Availabe from It’s All Greek.
Calling on Apollo
Made by the St Eval Candle company, this scent is inspired by the myth of Apollo and Daphne.
Available from It’s All Greek.
Who is the fairest of them all?
Bronze mirrored inspired by a 5th century BCE original.
Available from It’s All Greek.
Kids
Temple blocks
What will your little ones build with this set. The Iseum Campense, the Isis Temple in Pompeii, the Serapeum in Delos… Set their young imaginations free.
From the Soane Museum Shop.
“For many years the friends Achilles and Patroclus fight in the Trojan War for the conquest of Troy. The two have been friends since childhood and always stand side by side in battle. But one day…”
Good penpupship
A smart pen for the executive in your life. Sign important contracts and big cheques with style. Looks like real gold.
From the British Museum Shop.
Plagues from history
People talk about the great men of history, but perhaps they should talk about the microbes of history.
An intriguing educational toy.
Other
very nice
This wine has nice legs, a fresh bouquet and goes down nice and easy.
The label is inspired by an Etruscan bowl (now in the Villa Giulia) which may depict Calu, an Italian canine god of the dead. Wow!
A taste of Osiris
Bring good luck into the new year, with this tasty bar of Osiris.
From Choco Myths – sweet delights with a pinch of history!
Smelling nice
“Arcane, dark and exotic – rich in presence and ritual. Anubis is built around an accord of Nile pink lotus and Egyptian jasmine intensified with clove buds, spicy immortelles and saffron.”
Ten books from last year we recommend:
- 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall, Seán Hewitt
- Cleopatra’s Daughter by Jane Draycott
- Journeys of the mind by Peter Brown
- Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatt
- On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock
- Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber
- Queens of a Fallen World by Kate Cooper
- The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley
- The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
- Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings Through the British Ritual Year
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