History & The Arts
Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
...Open University students of Greece and Rome get to read about dangerous spellbinding crones in the original Latin (for instance on the language module Continuing Classical Latin). The avid letter-writer Pliny (2nd century CE) relishes relating an episode about a haunted house and the discovery of a skeleton in chains waiting for a decent burial. In the racy novel...
