An in-depth portrait of statesman and aristocratic soldier Marcus Porcius Cato traces his life against a backdrop of period terrorism, a debt crisis and a fractious and drama-prone ruling class, descr
?In the past decade, classical scholarship has been polarized by questions concerning the establishment of a literary tradition in Latin in the late third century BCE. On one side of the divide, there
The philosophers of the Roman world were asking questions whose answers had practical effects on people's lives in antiquity, and which still influence our thinking to this day. In spite of being negl
