A map of ancient Italy subtitled "Places noted in the History of its Literature." This map shows the districts of Cisalpine Gaul, Umbria, and Etruria, the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily, major cities, rivers, seas, and mountain...

The monks also became copyists, and with great painstaking and industry gathered and multiplied ancient manuscripts, and thus preserved and transmitted to the modern world much classical learning and literature that would otherwise have...

Augustus ruled for about forty-two yeras, that is, from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D., and this period is known in history as the Golden Age of Latin Literature.-Colby, 1899

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 - 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th...