In The Republic, Plato banished poets for their power to distort judgment. Two thousand years later, that ancient warning is ...

December, the 12th month, has arrived. However, it is said that the word “December” did not originally refer to the 12th month. The Western calendar originated in ancient Rome. The name “December” is ...

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As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire.

What follows is strange. Troilus’s soul leaves his body, rising above the fields of death. From this vantage point he ...