Return to Rutland Roman Villa
This past summer, the team returned to explore other buildings on the site, in order to learn more about the complex as a whole.
classical literature
Words of wisdom: ‘Poetry is more like philosophy…’
The difference between a historian and a poet is not that one uses prose and the other verse. After all, you could take the History of Herodotus and turn it into verse, but it would still be history, not poetry.
‘Arrogance and violence’
Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars offers a series of sensational biographies of Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, highlighting moments of depravity, viciousness, scheming, and excess.