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...Latin name for Troy) is set during the war itself, and the Odyssey focuses on the convoluted and fantastical journey home of one of the Greek warriors, Odysseus, after the Greeks destroyed Troy. The war itself was said to have lasted for ten years, and Odysseus’ journey back to his palace on the island of Ithaca took a further ten years. The lengthy timescales involved...

...Latin seems to be the language used in inscriptions, but we don't know what was spoken in everyday conversations. The point of this activity is to make you focus upon what can be conceived of as Roman and to think about whether or not some of the things you have met so far in Africa are familiar because you have already encountered similar things in Rome or elsewhere in...

...Latin, clavis, meaning ‘key’). From the eleventh century onwards, several Roman letters, including c and f, were used systematically for clefs, with g subsequently becoming increasingly common. In a stylised form, g, with flamboyant curls and flourishes, is still used as the treble or G clef, and signifies that a note placed on the second line from the bottom is G...

...Latin. The works he consults, written by such great thinkers of classical antiquity as the Greek philosopher Aristotle, the Greek medical authority Galen, and the Roman emperor Justinian, were central texts in the sixteenth-century university curriculum. The first impression the speech gives us, then, is of the breadth of Faustus's learning. There is no one on stage with...