What poet or historian. ever conceived or witnessed so mighty a spectacle as that which is now proceeding, in our midst. The hurried partings with which, the air reverberates, the "God-bless-yous ...

One thing is clear: if we take ancient Greece out of the equation, the Ovid we read, celebrate, and admire today wouldn't ...

Stefan Bakałowicz’s Roman poet Catullus reading to his friends ... The woman in question was almost certainly Clodia, from an ancient aristocratic family and the wife of the politician Q.

Like so many other Roman treasures, it was borrowed from the ancient Greeks. Apicius used it in all his recipes, and the poet Martial wrote of it: "Accept this exquisite garum, a precious gift ...