All posts tagged "Ancient Rome"
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Television
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Egypt
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
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