CLASSICS
January/February 2014
Plato attempted to divorce wine-drinking and pleasure and to conscript wine to “worthy” purposes. Thank goodness no one listened to him
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July/August 2013
Peter Stothard’s lifelong ambition was to write a biography of Cleopatra. The charming result says as much about the author as it does about the Egyptian queen
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May 2012
The rule of the ancient King of Persia was more enlightened than the despots of today's Islamic Republic of Iran
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September 2009
Could anxiety over the future of the West be behind the publication of so many books on the fall of the Roman Empire?
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