Rom, 72 n. Chr.: Marcus Didius Falco hat eigentlich genügend private Probleme am Hals. Seine geliebte Helena, die Senatorentocher, ist schwanger, Nichte Tertullia wird entführt, ein Hund läuft ihm zu, schliesslich findet er noch ein ausgesetztes Baby. Doch eine ganze Reihe von V…
Discover Rome: experience the best of Rome
by Blasi, Abigail, Garwood, Duncan
fromLonely Planet
By the 1950s, Italy was in the process of reinventing itself and becoming one of the most glamorous places on earth. But the murder of Wilma Montesi exposed a darker side of Roman life--a life of corruption, cover-ups and carnal pleasures. It was a crime that the newspapers, the…
"So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism proposes a novel approach to Dionysius' œuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic study of Greek classicism fro…
I 1508 blev Michelangelo bestilt til at male loftet i Det sixtinske Kapel. De følgende fire år blev noget helt særligt
"Vegetius' late Roman text became a well known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De re militari, tracing the growing interest in the te…