Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) was the greatest polymath of the Roman republic. During his lifetime he authored several hundred books, and though many of them dealt with linguistic topics, the De lingua Latina ('On the Latin language'), the first large-scale linguistic treat…
Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) was the greatest polymath of the Roman republic. During his lifetime he authored several hundred books, and though many of them dealt with linguistic topics, the De lingua Latina ('On the Latin language'), the first large-scale linguistic treat…
In the troubled period of the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Principate, three gods of eastern origin--the Phrygian Cybele and the Egyptian Isis and Serapis--had specific cult places at Rome, and they seem to enliven the religious, intellectual, and even political …
