All posts tagged "ancient history"
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China
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
June 21, 2022In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
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History
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
June 17, 2022The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
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History
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
June 9, 2022"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
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Books
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 26, 2022Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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Anthropology
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
October 23, 2021I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
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Archeology
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
August 16, 2021After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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Books
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
August 2, 2021David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
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Africa
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
July 11, 2021Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
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Books
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
September 26, 2020It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
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Biography
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
July 16, 2020Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
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