Double vision : Plautus's Menaechmi and Rome's nascent empire -- Wayward sons and wandering Bacchic revels : Terence's Heautontimorumenos -- Wandering atoms, Ro

This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad fo

Between 2009 and 2012, the Gordon Institute for the Performing and Creative Arts in Cape Town held the Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series which bec

The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their co

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil's fictional world and its political context