"A professor of both history and classics describes the actual events of March 15, 44 BC, when Julius Caesar was murdered during the Roman civil wars, in comparison to those outlined by William Shakespeare in his famous play" "Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius …
"At the end of the Republic, religious, legal, and literary knowledge began to take the form of a 'Roman heritage', as broadly defined as it was indefinite. Caesar, like Cicero, thought that language, along with political institutions and laws, constituted the fundamental featur…
"Lucan is the wild maverick among Latin epic poets: sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in recent years his work has been gaining in reputation. Poetry and civil war in Lucan's 'Bellum Civile' is a book founded on a gen…