Before there was Vergil, a generation of poets was testing the boundaries of Latin verse with exciting, powerful, and often downright scandalous poetry. We call them the “neoteric” poets today. ...
Read more: New and Old-School Poets at the End of the Republic
Before there was Vergil, a generation of poets was testing the boundaries of Latin verse with exciting, powerful, and often downright scandalous poetry. We call them the “neoteric” poets today. ...
Read more: New and Old-School Poets at the End of the Republic
Almost everybody will have heard of Cicero, one of the most famous ancient Romans. Recently, he has even been presented again to a wider audience by Robert Harris’ novels Imperium and Lustrum, ...
Read more: Cicero and the Roman Republic
Do you, I wonder, ever find yourself wondering about ‘life, the universe and everything’? Do you ever look up at the stars and feel awe at the immensity of the universe? Do you ever look at a ...
Read more: Eternal Questions
We need textiles every day of our life - for clothing, carpets, curtains, towels in the household, for decoration and so on. Because textiles - and especially clothes - are so visible, they have ...
Read more: What not to weave?
Ovid's Metamorphoses is a poem about change on every level imaginable. So many different changes occur that people have long tried to find patterns in them and reasons that might explain why Ovid ...
Read more: Cry me a river: watery fates in Ovid's Metamorphoses
