Seizing his day

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Mark Antony’s wife was a political player in her own right

The author of historical fiction talks to Zoe West

Zola’s vivid characters blew his theories off course

Should ancient Athens serve modern progressive causes?

Wyndham Lewis’s pro-fascist polemical novel was enabled by a left-wing writer