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

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary excess. Images of exotic – even orgiastic – feasts perpetuate its reputation for strangeness and decadence. It may come as no surprise, therefore ...

‘They say a poet can change your life,’ a woman tells me in a hotel lift. We’re in Durban, South Africa, where I’m appearing ...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?" Asked Roman poet Juvenal.Replace guard with political ...

Likewise, among the many Greek food writers, Archestratus, a 4th-century BC poet ... longer Roman tradition of relative temperance forced upon them by the harsh realities of the ancient world.

The Appian Way symbolized the Roman Empire’s might. Now Italy is restoring the ancient road ... of travel along the Appia began with Latin poet Horace around 35 B.C., and it has had no shortage ...

The social season is almost upon us, which means Ascot, Henley, Wimbledon and the rest. Or, as the Romans might have put it, ...

Peter Swanson’s latest novel of suspense presents Thom Graves, a 50-ish tenured professor of English, and his wife, Wendy, a ...

On Wednesday, Evaristo was awarded the prestigious £100,000 Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, recognising her ...