The poet Virgil observed ... war.” The Roman Republic swallowed much of Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. The Empire then ruled the conquered lands and people by two axioms ...

By the famous eruption of AD79, prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were home to thousands of people ... An administrator and poet called Pliny the younger watched the disaster ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid ... It’s easily accessible for a person who is not used to opera.

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

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English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid ... It’s easily accessible for a person who is not used to opera. It’s colourful. It’s easy to ...

Roman poet Virgil declared Lake Como “our greatest lake”, a pronouncement ... espionage and smuggling – both people and goods – to and from its neutral northern neighbour. Dongo’s End of War Museum ...

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 ... Congress of the People. Ntabeni's ...

The star of 'Captain America: Brave New World' shares four sons with his ex-wife Eric Andersson joined PEOPLE as a senior writer in 2022. His work has appeared in TV Guide Magazine, The Wall ...