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76Nature versus Nurture in the Case of Matteo Alacran
What part does nurture play in determining the character of a person? Matteo Alacran, who was first born in Mexico to poverty and later harvested in Opium to wealth, provides an opportunity for postulation of...
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72Latin in Pop Culture
This hub explores the use of the Latin language and Rome’s mythology and anecdotal history in pop culture as a means of increasing interest in the Classics. Some sources are correct in their representation...
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72Gender Roles in Ancient Rome
This hub explores Roman gender roles only through the Twelve Tables and attempts, very briefly, to examine this in light of further Roman laws. In particular, it looks at the implied rights of women and...
0 comments71Roman Dining - Roman Orgies?
Roman dining is a broad topic, encasing within itself not only the physical customs of eating but also the ritualized dance of social constructs. Many aspects which are true of private...
0 comments70Catullus, Roman Love Poet
Gaius Valerius Catullus was a 1st century Roman poet. His poems are in Latin and many concern a woman he calls Lesbia. She was apparently a married noblewoman and he her lover, not at all uncommon in those...
0 comments69Classicist Review of "Gladiator"
One might be able to say that those who created “Gladiator” completely disregarded history and facts to create a sensational, bloody, massively inaccurate film about Ancient Rome. This...
0 comments69Building a Fire, Analyzing Jack London
In Jack London’s To Build Fire, the main character struggles with nature on account of his removal from it by reason. The man confronts the bitter cold of the near Arctic and is unable to...
0 comments67Women in the "Illiad" and "Odyssey"
Women play an important, yet often overlooked, role in classical epics. Whether to drive the plot, add dimensions to a male hero's character, or to present a political argument in a rather vague sense,...
0 comments67The Uncanny and The Dark Tower
This hub discusses the Freudian concept of the uncanny as it pertains to the later portions of Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. Indeed, one could open any Stephen King book and find ample...
0 comments66Why Rome Became Christian
> Deciding: Conscious Efforts to Convert The conversion of Paralios from his native paganism to Christianity is most easily looked at through the lens of the cultural...
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