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“... so faithful a film fan. Nixon occupied the White House for 67 months. Over that time, according to Mark Feeney’s Nixon at the Movies, he saw 528 movies – an average of nearly two a week. The rate stepped up once Watergate began to darken his presidency in 1973. Chisum was a quintessential Nixon entertainment. The Western was the president’s ...”

“... is a thorough, properly nuanced account of the Romans’ concept of time – and in Denis Feeney’s excellent new book, that is very nearly what we have. Caesar’s Calendar consists of three pairs of chapters: ‘Synchronising Times’, ‘Transitions from Myth into History’ and ‘Years, Months, and Days’. The first is a superb exploration of ...”

“... simply given up. He remained a dangerous man to his enemies, as well as one bitterly resented by Mark Antony for the Philippics’ passionate attacks on him. When Antony met with Lepidus and young Caesar on their little island in a river in northern Italy to cement the ‘Triumvirate’ and to draw up a list of enemies to be proscribed, Cicero’s name was ...”

“... imported by the Trojans. Since Augustus had expended a lot of energy painting his rival, Mark Antony, as a decadent debauchee in thrall to an oriental queen, the Trojan inheritance was difficult to embrace wholeheartedly, and the figure of Ascanius, ‘poised between Troy and Rome’, is ‘an important reminder of the ongoing, if ...”