Ms. Cargill-Martin is a writer and classical scholar. The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories. They love its ideals of hard, unbending masculinity. And they ...

The ancient Roman scholar notes that silphium “grows ... But most of all, silphium resin was cherished as the perfect love potion due to its combo of aphrodisiac and birth control properties.

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.