460-c. 400 BC), the craft of history fared poorly in the Greek world not reviving until Polybius (c. 200-c. 118 BC), Prof. Parmeggiani (Ferrara) has collected a dozen essays by himself and other ...

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC, relatively early in Pericles' long career as Athens' leading politician. He left a number of important plays that still survive today ...

Edmund Morris is taking a break from his Theodore Roosevelt sequence to write a book about Beethoven ... a.d. 46 in east-central Greece, Plutarch lived in his own golden age, during the reigns ...