Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir describes a son’s mission to understand his father
An Odyssey shows that if any subject can dissolve their differences, it is Classics.
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What the lessons of the Roman Empire can teach us about Donald Trump
Trump is a reminder that a republic is rarely anything other than an ideal.
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Think 2016 is the worst year ever? Not by a long shot
Those who discern a curse of 2016 have little trouble in citing incidents of global terror, war, famine, the…
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Notes from a small island: the fraught and colourful history of Sicily
Sicily: Culture and Conquest at the British Museum.
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Revenge of the Greats
Today, few teenagers learn Latin or Greek. But would we understand the world better if we read and studied…
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End of an orator: the ancient Roman machinations of Robert Harris’s Dictator
Dictator, the final installment in the "Cicero trilogy", finds the great lawyer exiled from Rome.
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