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ZEUS:gentlecompassionatemore human figure
JUPITER:impartialharshcolder characterisation
BOTHpowerful - epithets 'the cloud gatherer' (Zeus), '...

Classics can often be seen as a very do-it-yourself subject, which can be extremely daunting with the amount of information you have to learn. The best method to revise Classics for me was to use a combin...

The Roman hunting games, known as the venatio, are perhaps one of the most recognisable aspects of Roman history. Initially, the venatio seems to have been an off-shoot of the early triumphs agai...

Suetonius represents an example of an ancient biographer. While Suetonius was a Roman, the biographical tradition came from the Greeks and another example can also be found in Plutarch. Ancient biographie...

In this passage Aeneas, having just witnessed the murder of Priam, in a frenzy contemplates the murder of Helen, only to be prevented by the intervention of his mother Venus. Helen hiding "at the alt...