Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Roman women and men wore bright colours and always found some moralist ready to reproach them for it. Martial sketches the austere man who “likes cloaks in gloomy shades”, who judges cherry red and hyacinth violet vulgar, and who “thinks natural everything that grows pale” – yet […]
The polis: when the city was also a board game
Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Athens, around 430 BCE. On the theatre stage, masked actors perform The Runaways, a comedy by the comic poet Cratinus of which only a few fragments have survived[1]. A character declaims: “Son of Pandion, king of the city with fertile soil, you know well which city is […]