For today’s Women’s Wednesday we will be focusing on Niobe. Daughter of Tantalus and sister of Pelops, for centuries her name has been identified with the concrete danger of being too prideful. Object of her…
History, art, power, and intrigues: in a world where TV series are becoming the new main way of entertainment, Medici: Masters of Florence was all of this. The show – a co-production between Rome’s Lux Vide and Rai Fiction,…
Exactly 921 years ago, on October 21, 1097, the first Siege of Antioch began. The conflict, which lasted a total of 8 months, marked the arrival of the First Crusade in the Holy Land: the city of…
Another Wednesday, another Mulier Clara: this week is the turn of Hypermnestra, queen of Argos. Hypermnestra's story begins, like many others in Greek mythology, with marriage. Her father, Danaus, was asked to give his 50 daughters in…
October 13 is the feast day of Edward the Confessor, the second-to-last Anglo-Saxon king of England ruling from 1042 to 1066. While many historians debate over his success as king, his very nickname suggests a…
It’s finally time for our Women’s Wednesday! Like every week we will focus on a new Mulier Clara: the spotlight this time is on Thisbe, a maiden from Babylonia, famous for her tragic love story…
October 4 is the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved saints of all time and - among many more - patron saint of animals, the environment, Italy, the city…
Earlier today we had the chance to talk about two Amazon queens, Marpesia and Lampedo. But what about the Amazon tribe itself? Boccaccio's main source, the ancient Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, describes the rise of…