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 ...

The Hunger Games movies have been jumping around streaming services over the years, but it’s been a while since they’ve been ...

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.

The Hunger Games movies rank among the most successful book adaptations of all time, but as with any page-to-screen ...

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 ...

Alexander encountered Kalanos, an Indian sage, whose wisdom and detachment challenged the conqueror's values. Kalanos joined ...