Ingo Gildenhard

Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world's greatest orators. This particular passage is f...

In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme com...

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesars death, Cicero and Mark Ant...

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Ant...

The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches di (autore) Ingo Gildenhard

This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer...

A cura di Ingo Gildenhard a cura di Cristiano Viglietti

A companion to  Virgil, Aeneid 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary  (OBP 2026),  Teaching Dido  includes five essays that explore aspects of Virgil's poetry in a st...