All posts tagged "ancient history"
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 22, 2026Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Archeology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
July 17, 2026Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
Religion
Julian The Apostate
July 1, 2026But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
History
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
June 26, 2026Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
June 14, 2026In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
History
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
June 10, 2026The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
May 31, 2026"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 25, 2026Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
Religion
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
December 12, 2025I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
Art
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
October 9, 2025After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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