Bard College classicist James Romm, author of memorably good books such as Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight ...

“Parallel Lives” is a capacious book that ranges across Europe and America, as well as the lives of numerous distinguished figures: Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Anne Frank, Audrey Hepburn, Thomas Mann ...

Wonder Land: Donald Trump’s Presidential term could best be described as a protracted war; and as 2020 approaches, the battle lines are being drawn. Image: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images ...

Thucydides has been enjoying quite the media moment, despite being dead for more than 2,400 years. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster have both been known to cite ...

This dramatic clash of champions has been narrated many times, most memorably by Polybius and Livy. Nevertheless, the author shapes his biographical contrast into a gripping interwoven chronicle that ...

This lecture imagines how the Greek biographer Plutarch might write a Parallel Lives of an ancient and a modern stateman: Phocion the Good was a fourth-century Athenian statesman, who capped his long ...

The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel lives” to describe his collection of biographical sketches, in which he paired illustrious Greeks with Romans who lived, in most cases, centuries ...