Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. “It is a beautiful honor to die for one’s country.” In this famous line, the Roman poet Horace gave lasting expression to an ideal of republican virtue inherited ...

He had just turned 22. Young and eager, but anxious about being what he most wanted to be, a leader of infantrymen. So he and some of his friends approached me. "Captain, can you teach us?" This was ...

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. This is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace’s Odes, which can be roughly translated into English as “It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s own country.” ...

DULCE ET decorum est pro patria mori?No, President Obama insisted yesterday in Oslo. War may be inevitable, part of the human condition, sometimes justifiable, but it "promises human tragedy". "War ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. WILFRED Owen, an Englishman, is widely regarded as the greatest poet to emerge from the Allied side during World War I. The significance ...