The life of Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70–27 BCE) shows what happened to politicians in ancient Rome who fell out of favor ...

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We practice skills-building in every class, analyzing English and Latin grammar and syntax in sentences from Wheelock’s Latin ...

After Julius Caesar’s death the Roman Senate declared him a god, a decision that transformed the political landscape. This episode reveals how the young Octavian adopted the title Divi Filius, “son of ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

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Whether an assassin wants to silence someone over mysterious secrets, act for a cause, or eliminate a rival, the concept ...

The goat’s blood-drinking White supremacist and failed Senate candidate who participated in the torch-lit march across University of Virginia Grounds before the infamous Unite the Right ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

Here at the Desk, the presentation is simple: an upright piano, a guitar and Caesar, lifted by a 12-piece choir. From note number one, I, along with the audience of NPR staffers, was instantly stunned ...

For at least 151 years, a hemlock and its close neighbor, a red oak, have grown up together on the Bates campus, close enough to overlap branches, while buildings popped up around them. Their survival ...