All posts tagged "ancient history"
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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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History
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
June 1, 2020Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Archeology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
May 28, 2020Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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History
Julian The Apostate
May 16, 2020But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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History
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
May 13, 2020Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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China
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
May 7, 2020In 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
May 2, 2020The 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?
April 29, 2020"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
April 18, 2020Brown 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
April 15, 2020I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
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