Through the Tufts University Perseus Project, Livy’s Books I and II with an English translation, published in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press presented by London Editor William Heinemann, ...
According to the historians of antiquity, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus as a hangout for the delinquent youth of early Iron Age Latium, and was given permanence by the rape of 527 ...
Plutarch ('Lives' II, 14 and 19) relates that the Sabine tribe were invited to games in Rome; at a given signal from their king, Romulus, the Romans carried off the women. The background shows the ...
The history of Western culture is also a history of rape. This is the thesis of Michael Yates Crowley’s pointed satire on American rape culture, set in a high school and unfolding in the aftermath of ...