All posts tagged "Ancient Rome"
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History
DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition
July 21, 2024The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an...
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Art
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: 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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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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History
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
December 23, 2023When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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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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Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Julian The Apostate
November 27, 2023But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
October 28, 2023"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
July 9, 2023Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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