Augustus in power At that point, Augustus had just become undisputed ruler of Rome. Virgil was delighted. Like many other Romans, he hoped that Augustus would rescue Rome from the chaos and ruin ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...