Book Review: The Life of Roman Republicanism
/A new book looks at the writings of Cicero, Sallust, and Horace to understand the mind of their times.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: On Exile
/The signature work by one of the prickly fathers of the Italian Renaissance humanism gets its inaugural print edition in the latest offering from Harvard's magnificent I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read MoreBook Review: Commentaries on Plato
/Marsilio Ficino's enormous commentary on the Parmenides of Plato receives a fantastic scholarly edition from - who else? - Harvard's I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read MoreBook Review: The Iliad
/Homer's Iliad gets a new and unconventional translation into sometimes very familiar language
Read MoreBook Review: Ghost on the Throne
/When Alexander the Great died at age 32, his huge empire was split apart by his warring successors. James Romm's new book on the subject captures all the brutal drama.
Read MoreBook Review: The Iliad
/A new translation raises old questions about the greatest epic of them all.
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