By this otherwise unknown author, we have a short book, coming from sometime in the 2nd century BCE. His work, the Art of Grammar ...
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Continue Reading → Although not so well known today, Book 4 of Pappus’ Collection is one of the most important and influential mathematical texts from antiquity, both ...
Continue Reading → The Codex of Justinian is, together with the Digest, the core of the great Byzantine compilation of Roman law called the Corpus Iuris Civilis. ...
Continue Reading → In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses, came under severe criticism for The Art of Love, which playfully ...
Continue Reading → Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology. The Metamorphoses, which he wrote over the six-year period leading up to ...
Continue Reading → In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles ...
Continue Reading → ‘What’s the harm in using humour to put across what is true?’ Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of ...
Continue Reading → The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent ...
Continue Reading → Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric: For Herennius), once to Ciceros, is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric and is still used today as a ...
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