The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally “Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy”) is a work ...
Continue Reading →The Civil War (Bellum Civile), is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, telling of the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces ...
Continue Reading →Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
Continue Reading → In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully ...
Continue Reading → Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology. The Metamorphoses, which he wrote over the six-year period leading up to ...
Continue Reading → ‘What’s the harm in using humour to put across what is true?’ Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of ...
Continue Reading → The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent ...
Continue Reading →Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric: For Herennius), once to Ciceros, is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric and is still used today as a textbook ...
Continue Reading → Cicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue ...
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