The Way of Passion - Prijzen

Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on import...

Who Murdered Chaucer?

In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt - one of the mo...

The Poetry of Allusion

Searching for Sappho – The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the stor...