The Greeks are better thought of as overseas settlers, often driven by land hunger, starvation, commerce or simply the search for a better life.
By Peter Jones
They took the view that all human beings were personally accountable for their actions and fully responsible for the outcomes
By Peter Jones
Augustus ruled the Roman empire from 27 BC to AD 14 and was the longest serving of the roughly seventy emperors of the Western empire
By Peter Jones
Medical problems come and go in the media, and at the moment the flavor of the month appears to be gout
By Peter Jones
For Aristophanes, communism was one long, uproarious joke
By Peter Jones
The Syracusia was constructed out of enough material to build sixty triremes
By Peter Jones
By acting justly, Cicero concluded, ‘our government could be called more accurately a protectorate of the world rather than an empire’
By Peter Jones
Seeing the turannos as a deviant type of king, Aristotle tested the distinction under four headings
By Peter Jones
She stands up to her suitors and they admire her trick to delay her marriage
By Peter Jones
A Princeton professor wants Classics to disappear because it has been used as a justification for slavery, colonialism and fascism
By Peter Jones
The mentality of the ancient curse-tablet lives on
By Peter Jones
The Globe Theatre in London has launched a project to do just that
By Peter Jones
In the ancient world, movements of people were also very common, often because war, famine or exile left them with no option
By Peter Jones
They revel in exotic mises-en-scène and absurd plots
By Peter Jones
Gladiatorial games and chariot-races provided opportunities for the plebs to display their feelings
By Peter Jones
