La Mort de Brutus de Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

Perhaps more than any other single work, Shakespeare'sJulius Caesarhas popularized the image of Brutus as a ruthless and cowardly traitor, Caesar as a noble ruler and sympathetic v...

Antiochus of Ascalon was one of the seminal philosophers of the first century BC, an era of radical philosophical change. Some called him a virtual Stoic, but in reality his progra...

Little is known about Walter of Coventry (fl.1293) beyond the fact that he was alive during the reign of Edward I and that this substantive historical compilation was prepared eith...