To which classical figure do you most relate and why? Alcibiades. He was prepared to take any risk and undergo any danger. He is widely regarded as disloyal to Athens - but whose fault was that? Who has been the most important mentor in your career? James Eggleshaw - a wonderful polymath who inspired me at school. I kept in contact with him until his death a couple of years ago, as a very old man. No words can describe my debt to him. What book has been most influential to your career? The Flowers of Adonis, by Rosemary Sutcliffe. Sadly out of print now, it is a novel with original, intelligent interpretation. What would have you become if not a Classicist? No idea. What book are you currently reading? The Oxford Archaeological Guide to Southern France - work related, I fear! If you could travel back to ancient Rome, what five items would you take with you from the present? A good supply of English beer, sunglasses, my camera, suntan lotion, an Oxford Classical Dictionary. When did you know you wanted to be a Classicist? I was always good at Latin and Greek, so I followed my abilities, I guess. What literary character do you most resemble? Tigger.

Julian Morgan is a Classics teacher at Derby Grammar School and also is one of six partners in CIRCE, a Classics and ICT Resources Course for Europe. He is the winner of AbleMedia's Bronze Chalice awards for his submission of Disco ut doceam. If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from Classical times would you want to deliver your eulogy? Horace, so he could see how I followed him around when I wrote the Horace Trail. What is the best advice you have ever received? If you were big enough to do it in the first place, you should be big enough to apologise now. When and where in the Classical World would you have liked to live? In Hadrian's time - on tour with him (though I am not sure I could have coped with all of his tastes!) What trend in Classical Studies do you see as positive? I suppose it would have to be the increase of intelligent usages of ICT. If it were possible, with whom, dead or alive, from the world outside of Classical Studies would you like to have dinner? Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones drummer). What is one thing about Classical Studies that you wish your students understood? Indirect Statement in Latin. What law, rule, event, or custom from Classical times would you like to see reincarnated today? Panathenaic festival. Summarize yourself in the title of a Classics paper. Connecting two worlds.