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The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

The most intriguing aspect of this book is that it’s written as a sort of ‘life in the day’ of the Colosseum, that vast edifice begun in Rome by the emperor Vespasian (AD 69–79) to entertain the masse

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What a pity they are almost all dead. The Argentines who were around in the 1940s and ’50s, and old enough to remember Evita and to know what was going on. They could have come to Washington and reliv