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ZEUS: gentlecompassionatemore human figure JUPITER: impartialharshcolder characterisation BOTH powerful - epithets 'the cloud gatherer' (Zeus), 'the All-powerful Father, the highest power in all the universe...

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 combinati...

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 against Rome's ...

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 biographies a...

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 altar&...