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A poet who prospered despite Rome’s bloody civil wars
WILLIAM FITZG
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
The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking
A freewheeling Cavafy for modern times
An African perspective on Augustine of Hippo’s thought
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 Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am
