Throughout history, sieges have been a testament to the resilience, strategy, and endurance of both attackers and defenders.

This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young ...

Torjussen, Stian Sundell 2008. The “Orphic-Pythagorean” Eschatology of the Gold Tablets from Thurii and the Sixth Book of Virgil'sAeneid. Symbolae Osloenses, Vol. 83, Issue. 1, p. 68.

Augustus Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of supporting Augustus Caesar’s aims. “You’ve never had ...

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

Gladiator 2 is thrilling – even if Paul Mescal is no Russell Crowe - 4/5 Ridley Scott’s belated sequel has sharks, monkeys, ...

Explore Ursula K. Le Guin's captivating books, where imaginative stories, deep characters, and powerful themes create ...

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Kevin Roberts' new book, 'Dawn's Early Light', advocates for a radical 'controlled burn' of US institutions like the FBI ...

Bartsch is a classics professor at the University of Chicago, and has degrees from Princeton, Harvard, and UC Berkeley. She ...

F ear stalks the land, including the Upper West Side,” I wrote to a friend the other day. A week before the election, ...