All posts tagged "ancient history"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
February 3, 2025"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
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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History
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
August 8, 2024I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
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Religion
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
June 8, 2024After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
May 25, 2024David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
May 8, 2024Carthage, 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
April 12, 2024It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
February 4, 2024Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
December 17, 2023Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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History
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
December 13, 2023Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...