Cicero is assassinated

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

On 20 March 44 BC, a violent death in Rome was about to send assembled masses into uproar – sparking pandemonium that threatened to engulf the city. The incident described by the ancient biographer Su

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

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Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

D o you remember cecil the lion, the bold, wild and archetypally handsome big cat at Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park? With a glorious flowing mane and a royal swagger, Cecil was the star attraction at