Karen Murdarasi

Fulvia stabs the tongue of Cicero's severed head with a needle, by Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1819. Rijksmuseum. Public Domain.

Fulvia: The Roman Woman Who Would Be King

Without political power of her own in ancient Rome, Fulvia wielded that of her husbands.

Statue of Skanderbeg in Tirana, Albania. Thomas Quine (CC BY 2.0).

Skanderbeg: a Man for Our Times?

Albania’s greatest military hero Gjergj Kastrioti, also known as Skanderbeg, dedicated his life to fighting for his beleaguered homeland.