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A new show "Five Friends" at Museum Brandhorst considers Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, and Cy Twombly.
Here is a list of matters listed at Sydney Downing Centre District Court on Thursday. Today's court listings are published as part of News Corporation's commitment to public interest journalism and ...
Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...
1950: US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time in the Battle of Osan. On the same day, the Law of Return ...
Perusing the particulars of the Big Beautiful Bill as proposed by Mr. Trump and his Republican cohorts the cruelty and ...
The account of Messalina’s scandalous urge to prostitute herself comes from the satirical poet Juvenal, born years after her death. A similarly sordid and fantastical tale of the empress challenging ...
An official guide who showed me around the city one day regaled me uncritically with the anecdote, found in the satires of the poet Juvenal, that Messalina, the wife of the emperor Claudius, liked ...
One Boston Red Sox beat writer said Tuesday that the team has no reason not to call up 21-year-old Roman Anthony, the No. 1 prospect in baseball.
Joan Smith describes how the powerful women of ancient Rome’s first imperial dynasty were smeared as adulterers, poisoners and sexual deviants – and why those slurs still shape their reputations today ...
Secrets of ancient Roman elites revealed in 1,500-year-old cookbook It contains early versions of coq au vin, foie gras and pumpkin pie ...
The ancient Roman poet Juvenal called it panem et circenses, or “bread and circuses” – a strategy of appeasing the public with necessities and entertainment to distract them from the real ...
Two millennia ago, the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenalis (“Juvenal”) decried the political phenomenon of “bread and circuses”. Back in AD100, the Roman Empire was crushed by so much debt ...