For any number of reasons, the lack of an excellent modern translation into English being chief among them, Virgil`s ”Aeneid” is a work with which few readers are familiar today. Even those earnest ...

The dialogue between Vergil’s Aeneid and the first pentad of Livy’s history can be partially understood through the conflict between Romulus and Aeneas, both within each individual text and in ...

The chairman of Tabor Academy's Classics Department, G. Bruce Cobbold, will be the guest author to lead Marion's new discussion series, Sundays with the Author. The event, to be held this Sunday, is ...

Adams, J. N. 1982. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. Baltimore. African Rights. 1995. Rwanda-Not So Innocent: When Women Become Killers. London. Åhäll, L. 2012 ...

Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...

Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, is the author, most recently, of "Why Poetry Matters." Ursula K. LE GUIN can’t easily be pegged. Her ample body of work includes science fiction novels and stories, ...

THE association of these three names is not a fortuitous one. The closeness with which they themselves have interlinked their works is one proof of their greatness. They rise so high above ephemeral ...

Here is a sample essay, written by a first-year student in a humanities course I TA-ed for a number of years ago, that is somewhat similar in form to the essay you are being asked to write on Brave ...