Fiennes steps into the role originally portrayed by Donald Sutherland, bringing decades of villainous gravitas to Suzanne ...

North's translation of Plutarch's life of Julius Caesar by Plutarch Publication date [1907] Publisher London : George Gill Collection kellylibrary; toronto; university_of_toronto Contributor Kelly - ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

Sunrise on the Reaping is one of those upcoming book adaptations that I simply will not stop anticipating until the day it ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

Richard Whittaker It’s once again Shark Week, and creative kiddos who love sharks are in for a treat at this crafternoon.

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call science, philosophy, and religion. Drawing on the history of science, the ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Some of the key historians who wrote about the lives of ancient Greek women were Plutarch, Thucydides and Herodotus. There were also many stories and plays that give us representations of women in ...

The philosopher Plutarch also wrote extensively about the oracles, as he was a priest of Apollo at Delphi. Luckily for us, the Hellenic Museum has its very own oracle. People can ask a question via ...

Homer tells us that ancient Greek hero Odysseus spent seven years on the island of Ogygia, a place that could be Ireland ...