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Sex Games: Power and the Birth of a Genre in Rome

Verona, Northern Italy, 84BCE saw the birth of the poet who was to give life to one of the most controversial genres of Latin poetry, erotic elegy, the genre more standardly associated with Tibullus, ...

Sex Games: Power and the Birth of a Genre in Rome

Catullus: the most loved of love poets

Before the poet Catullus took up his stylus and poured his heart out onto wax and papyrus, men and women of the world fell in love with one another just as they do now and just as they will do until ...

What Baron Pierre de Coubertin really thought about the Olympic Games

You are probably aware that the revival of the ancient Greek Olympic Games in 1896 is attributed to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat. If you didn’t know that, by the end of 2012 you ...

Giving Poison to the Asp: Girls’ Education in Greece and Rome

It is now taken for granted in this country that girls and boys should receive the same kind of educational opportunities. Education in schools, and later in universities, is designed to broaden boys ...

Diana at Nottingham, or: how modern technology can breathe new life into ancient body parts

Ever wondered how it felt for a Roman to be in a sanctuary at a time when it was still fully operational? To attend a religious ritual? Or to place an object there, to dedicate it, and to ask the ...

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