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Art and the RomansThis text aims to overturn the frequent dismissal of Roman art as 'mosaics and uninspiring copies of Greek sculpture'. In place of the usual historical outline approach, this book looks at the subject by genre and considers the attitudes of Romans themselves to art. Drawing on literary sources as well as illustrations from many parts of the Roman world, this survey of Roman art to the time of Constantine considers what Romans hoped to achieve and how

Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles

Demosthenes’ oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political orator

μέχρι που γέμισε και πάλι από το φως και τη χαρά της ζωής

Across the wooden staircase

A prominent lawyer and administrator

She is a woman with many names

explored through the conflict between the contrasting figures of Andromache and Hermione

Herodotus and Sophocles

Tacitus chronicles the uneasy and unprecedented transition from one to the other

Saint-Lazare prison

each chapter ends with a section of original or very lightly adapted Latin texts with parallel idiomatic translations and full translation support

It presupposes that the beginner is learning the essentials of the Latin Grammar in the order set

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