Recently, following the article we published about the origins of the books in the Library of Alexandria, a somewhat finicky…
Literature
The oldest surviving text of Latin prose is a manual of agriculture and recipes, including the placenta cake
As we mentioned in a previous article, only one percent of all the literature produced by the Romans in Antiquity…
Delia Bacon, the writer who proposed the first theory about Shakespeare’s true identity
The debate about the authorship of Shakespeare’s works is not recent; it began about a century and a half after…
5 literary works, lost in the last 5 centuries, which could have been exceptional
In many articles we have mentioned lost works of antiquity, only known today by the fragments cited by later authors.…
Christine de Pizan, the first professional female writer in the Late Middle Ages and a forerunner of feminism
The honor of being a pioneer, of paving the way to something, is usually much disputed. Today we are going…
The Russian novel that inverts the roles in The Lord of the Rings: Sauron and the orcs are the good ones
It is doubtful that there is anyone who has not heard, even by minimal references, of The Lord of the…
The Iliad and the Odyssey are just two of the eight poems from the Epic Cycle that narrate the Trojan War.
The Epic Cycle, also called the Trojan Cycle because it narrates events related to the Trojan War, is a collection…
