Dante’s new nose Can you picture Dante, or his famous profile? His iconography is pretty static, yet now new research has concluded that his famous straight aquiline n Continue Reading →
The pretense of a classical education Quoth Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard,’When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.’ Benefi Continue Reading →
Martial’s Drinking Game David Meadows, the rogue classicist, is wondering about an epigram of Martial that is bandied about here and there to support the claim that ‘the Roma Continue Reading →
