Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars ... Nevertheless, Napoleon’s Commentaries on the Wars of Julius Caesar is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in either Caesar or ...

indices. $32.99 paper. ISBN: 1107670497 A Handbook to Caesar’s Works Well known largely for his great political and military skills, not to mention his spectacular assassination, in his times Julius ...

His main work, “Lives of the Caesars,” gave a vivid picture of Rome from the time of Julius Caesar to the Emperor Domitian. In this book, Suetonius organized his biographies not by person ...

His most famous work, however, was “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History), an encyclopedia of natural science that spanned thirty-seven books. In this work, Pliny describes in detail the ...

It follows Beard's 2007 book "The Roman Triumph ... The often-cited "The Twelve Caesars" is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. Written by Roman ...

So begins the Asterix comic series, which positions Julius Caesar as the power-lusting dictator of the mighty Roman Empire ...

Hackers struck the Internet Archive, leaking millions of users’s data and causing founder Brewster Kahle to take a sprawling library of online history offline.

Reserachers at Western University are finding, preserving and catalouging mediveal manuscript fragments found in early print books.

Marlon Brando transformed into all different kinds of people on the big screen. He was a dockworker in On the Waterfront, ...

“The Art of War” has 13 chapters of strategy to win a war and preserve the integrity of the army. Two rams butting heads only leads to headaches. When confronting a formidable foe, do not assault ...

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