Sep 14, 2018
‘Simply because I was good at it! But I did love it... I genuinely loved the stories. The Greek epics and their Roman - sort of - inheritors are full of gods and monsters. These huge stories of tragedy and fallibility and philosophy: that was the thrill for me. Reading about this ancient civilisation who seemed to live at a deeper, louder pitch than I did, and I found that very thrilling… I love big shapes, where huge characters rise and fall.’ ~ Tom Hiddleston on why he chose to study Classics at university