When Quintus Horatius Flaccus penned the phrase “Carpe Diem,” Augustan Rome was the innovation center of the world, operating extravagantly within and beyond its mid-Mediterranean vantage ...

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...

Roman Krznaric, a social philosopher in the United Kingdom, is the author most recently of Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World.

Perhaps this fisherman is familiar with the concept of carpe diem, a Latin phrase that means ‘seize the day’. One of the oldest philosophical mottos in Western cultural history, it was first noted ...