The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period’s key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually...

From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope.Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has chimed and clashed with the words of princes, emperors,...