Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin ...

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

Each year Lucia volunteers at a Summer Camp in Sicily. This summer however, will be the hottest on r...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

Aaron Eliyahu, a Jewish man, travels to a small village called Mala, Kerala in search of his Jewish ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military pe...