Classical and novel appear antithetical but a search for the new is evident in some of the oldest literary works.
Modern magnates such as Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel should heed the warnings of the Ancients in their quest for immortality.
Romans – like the poet Horace – tired of the relentlessness of city life and depicted the country as a venue for retreat and relaxation. But they also knew that time in the country was made all the sweeter by big city moolah and achievement.
Was it a crown or a ship that inspired the ancient inventor’s discovery?
Classicists have finally worked out an identity for Catullus’s lover Lesbia we can all believe in – Clodia Pulchra, wife of Pompey Junior.
Unfairly maligned in her lifetime, Aspasia of Miletus, wife of Pericles and friend to philosophers, was a remarkable woman in her own right.
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