Certainly a big draw for fans is the fact that "Gladiator ... This quote, attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal, refers to how the population can usually be kept appeased as long as they are ...

The poet Virgil observed, “So vast a toil it was ... and murderous civil war.” The Roman Republic swallowed much of Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. The Empire then ruled the ...

Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the likes of Homer, Virgil and Dante ... and that’s what a poet is doing: loosening the words.” Though we’re taught as schoolchildren ...

According to the ancient Roman poet Virgil in his Eclogue around 37 B.C. “amor vincit omnia” or in English, “love conquers all”. But does it? What if that love is at a time and place where ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music, Bangalore ...

Roman poet Virgil declared Lake Como “our greatest lake”, a pronouncement that remains true two thousand years later. Lush green hillsides plunge into the sparkling, emeraldy, cobalt water, and ...

One of the African-American poet’s most famous works is To Maecenas, written in 1773. Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (c.70 BC-c. 8 BC) was a Roman politician and patron of the poets Virgil and Horace. His ...

Phila is tutored by Maqoma in the way Dante in the Divine Comedy is guided through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise by the Roman poet Virgil, to which Ntabeni makes reference. Grounded in extensive ...

And follow today’s breaking transfer news here. GO FURTHER Champions League play-offs draw analysed: Manchester City face Real Madrid, relief for Bayern Munich, Milan and Juventus It has been a ...