Cicero is assassinated

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

It’s a measure of the enduring appeal of Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 swords-and-sandals epic that, when most of us hear the name Spartacus, a dimple-chinned Kirk Douglas springs immediately to mind. Heroic

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Discover the real story behind one of the ancient world’s most notorious emperors

LECHAIO, GREECE JULY 391 BCE

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias