“I believe if he really could, he would help us.” That belief, far more than anything Ahmadinejad has said about nuclear power or the Holocaust, defines Iran’s energetic president for the people who ...

1. Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work. 2. Lives of Agis and the Tiberius Gracchus. 3. Comparison in the lives of Agis and Tiberius Gracchus. 4. Land reform in ancient Greece and Rome.

The late Roman Republic is, in many minds, synonymous with political violence, civil war and the erosion of republican values. Less remembered, however, is how it got there. Rome wasn’t built in a day ...

Since its founding in 1880 by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, The American Journal of Philology has helped to shape American classical scholarship. Today The Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as ...

It’s not just the events this week in Washington, as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, that should worry us, but the erosion of norms they represent. By Jonn Elledge When Tiberius Gracchus was ...

Cruz then elides an anecdote Cicero tells about how Publius Scipio Nasica “in his capacity of a private citizen, put to death Tiberius Gracchus” when Tiberius, relative to Cataline, had only “slightly ...