JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR is a new three-part BBC-produced historical docudrama that explores how the nearly five-centuries-old Roman democracy was overthrown in just 16 years. The story ...

Julius Caesar reportedly said his last words in Greek: "And you, son Brutus?" But why did Caesar choose to speak these words ...

For four decades, St. Louis Shakespeare has been introducing generations of St. Louis Theatregoers to The Bard’s Works on stage. They are closing out their 40th season with an effective production of ...

Is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein “a warning against freewheeling scientific experimentation”? Ronald Bailey says no. The paradoxical Renoir: He was disgusted at the “high, ridiculous prices” his art ...

The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 as ...