All posts tagged "ancient history"
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
March 27, 2025Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
March 22, 2025Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
History
Julian The Apostate
March 6, 2025But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
February 16, 2025In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
History
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...
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...
Archeology
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...
Art & Design
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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