All posts tagged "Ancient Rome"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
September 12, 2026Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Art & Design
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
July 27, 2026When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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...
Italy
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Julian The Apostate
July 1, 2026But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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...
History
DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition
November 24, 2025The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an...
Archeology
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...
Books
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
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