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 ...

When he came to work up the story of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare had achieved an understanding of, and confidence in, his poetic function sufficient to allow him to assert the dramatic truth of ...

But Cleopatra was the first of her dynasty to be able to speak Egyptian (and if Plutarch, the Greco-Roman biographer whose Life of Antony is almost the only source we have for the story of the two ...

The Translation called Dryden’s. Corrected from the Greek, and Revised, by A. H. CLOUGH, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Professor of the English Language and Literature ...