What did religion originally mean? From Cicero to Lactantius, a centuries-long philological dispute over one Latin word reshaped Western understandings of religion.

Reflecting on the differences between ancient and modern definitions of heroism.

The story of Daphne depicts metamorphosis as the process by which living bodies are converted into everlasting symbols of culture, as the laurel that symbolizes Roman imperium, or power, arises from a moment of desperate resistance.