All posts tagged "Ancient Rome"
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History
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
June 9, 2022"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
February 26, 2022Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
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History
DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition
October 3, 2021The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an...
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Archeology
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
August 16, 2021After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
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Africa
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
July 11, 2021Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
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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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Archeology
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
June 6, 2020When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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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...