Category: Speaking Stones

  • Seize the centuries! A unique testament to a poet in stone

    By Peter Stothard THIS IS THE FIRST ESSAY OF A NEW SECTION CALLED ‘SPEAKING STONES’, FOCUSED ON SINGLE ROMAN ARTEFACTS AND EPIGRAPHS Just occasionally there is an ancient Roman inscription that makes hardened scholars gasp. Many who write about the Roman past use the evidence of poetry but there is only one surviving place in…