In classical Rome, and in other times and cultures, full moons were thought to cause madness in people and animals, as seen ...
Sulla's ruthless campaigns in Greece, including the devastating siege of ancient Athens, marked a turning point in Roman history.
Rika spends most of her days toiling in a frozen-foods warehouse, but her new gig is in a museum, where she has been hired to make conversation, in Latin, with an ancient Roman statue of the goddess ...
While Dionysius may have been the first recorded pirate, the most famous pirates lived during the 17th and 18th centuries, which came to be known as the golden age of sea piracy.
Sic Semper Tyrannis!” This is the Latin motto that translates, “Thus Always to Tyrants,” that appears on the state flag of Virginia, and it could not be more apropos as a rallying cry for the special ...
THE SPANISH ENTRADA ... Maybe it was my classical training in the early Sixties at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic junior seminary, where the Sulpician educator priests followed Cardinal Newman’s ...
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The emperor who declared war on the sea—and meant it
There's a moment in ancient history that reads like a fever dream. The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometime around 40 CE, marched his legions to the shores of the English Channel, arranged them in full ...
This week, a comparatively minuscule number of Colorado Democrats and Republicans will gather at churches and elementary ...
Free speech is a tenant of democracy, and though many Oklahoma leaders seem to ignore it, ours is a nation built by people ...
Men’s faces are under scrutiny as never before, with more opting for cosmetic procedures than ever. What is behind this sudden and significant shift?
The 21-year-old North Carolina man who drove through a gate at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a shotgun before he was ...
David McGarry reflects on Cicero’s hierarchy of values and insights about human nature with a view to understanding virtuous ...
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