For the past 410 days, Roman Reigns has held theWWE’s Universal Championship. In that span, he’s successfully defended the belt against numerous legends. He’s adopted a new entrance theme song that makes him feel like the impossible-to-defeat final boss of your favorite...
The poem seems to have been favoured for musical setting also in the heyday of thefrottola, the most widespread form of secular song in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Italy.Hereyou can find a setting by Bartolomeo Tromboncino, andhere at 2:10by Michele Pesenti. A final outing...
Following the death of Commodus and the brief reigns of two successors, the next real power in Rome was Septimius Severus, but to secure his throne, he had to put down usurpations by Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus. Niger never managed to secure acceptance by the senate, and so was...
And now universal silence reigns: even the horn-footed steeds refuse to stand, even the fires are quenched in sudden ashes. But slumber woos not the anxious Greeks [the Argives attacked Thebes] to same repose, and the night-wandering, persuasive deity keeps his mists from the camp hard by...