Ciceronianus; causidicus

I've commented briefly about our current, rather prevalent, indulgence in fantasy in past posts.  I comment on it more extensively in th...

Who better represents the quality of mercilessness than Ming the Merciless?  The quality is even a part of his name.  Seen here is Ming as p...

The insight, or at least the statement, that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it (with some variation in words used), h...

  Quintus Horatius Flaccus, better known these days as "Horace," was a Roman poet of the time of Augustus.  He was the son of a fr...

There's something curious about the popularity of stories involving fantasy worlds and the exploits of superheroes in these irritatingly...