It’s also a denial of the centuries-old wisdom Virgil wrote in his Georgics in 43 B.C.E., “Bacchus amat colles,” i.e. the god of wine loves the hills — this being the bedrock belief about ...

Forced to fight, their farms fell into neglect and ruin. In the “Georgics”, he mourned the ruined countryside. The poems capture the timeless peacefulness of country life that he desperately ...

This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere ...

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region ...

The Canadian Prime Minister will no longer lead the Liberal Party, and there are reasons to worry about what will happen if the Conservatives win the next election.

F24: Tuesdays 1:30-3:00 pm, Wednesdays 9:00-10:30 am or by appointment Professor Ganiban earned his B.A. in Latin from Yale University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University.