Rome experienced some of it greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...

Forget modern scientific equipment, it turns out the best way to find long-lost shipwrecks is by reciting Ancient Greek ...

These shorter texts — poems, speeches, anecdotes or essays — were compiled ... when discussions of classical studies in the West revolved largely around ancient Greece and Rome, but that studies of ...

Revel with Felix, the Lord of Misrule Next, step into Butser's Roman Villa and immerse yourself in ... Solstice Celtic Celebration complete with drumming, poetry, and prose. About: Butser Ancient Farm ...

While the historical and modern interpretation of the spirits of ancient Greece and Rome shall be included ... as The Book of Songs or the Classic of Poetry, simply as a literature work, the ...

There are not many places in the world today where you can hear ancient Sogdian love poetry read out in the original ... When in 408AD Alaric the Visigoth held Rome to ransom, his terms were ...

MAYBE the most famous poem based on a painting is WH Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts from December 1938. Do you remember it?

Another interesting fact is that poetry started to develop that time ... and literature. The history of Ancient Greece is now entering a new stage: the Hellenistic and Roman period.

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

The "Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems" concert was once performed at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia and ...