In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

We reveal original designs and alternative plans for some iconic monuments, so you can imagine the world's cityscapes as they ...

Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best..." ...

(This is the place to quote Horace, on the cultural endurance of ... And the elite Romans immortalized in these marble busts spoke Greek as a matter of course. We don’t know enough about just ...

Here Mithridates murdered the Greek generals, here Xenophon began to ... The schoolmaster’s punishment for them both was to memorize Horace’s “Ars Poetica” and recite it in two weeks.

But the classicist Michael Fontaine has pointed out that the poet—who, like all educated Romans, knew Greek as well as Latin—is actually indulging in an elaborate and risqué bilingual pun here.

They were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra about as ... in a language inhospitable to her. Horace celebrated her defeat before it had occurred. She helpfully illuminated one of ...

Library of Congress Adams, who was well versed in Latin and Greek literature ... a letter with an imitation of Horace’s famous ode to a friend who had fallen in love with his servant girl ...

“They wanted to fight for America even though they were basically Greek,” said Harry Pappas ... Reno and Elko. Horace Greely Bliss, a farmer from White Pine County in east-central Nevada ...

and around Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus gathered the “School of the Scipii,” an elite club where Greek culture was read, shared, and discussed. Thus began the Hellenization of Rome. Horace ...