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Keeping the armies out of Rome
Mary Beard
Though ancient Rome was a warrior state, its principal city was a strictly demilitarized zone, and its home displays of military power limited to bronze and marble. |
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How people lived in Roman Britain
Mary Beard
A new history of Roman Britain is too simplistic in its revisionism "(for 'Romans were good', read 'Romans were bad')." The point is that there are no heroes in this story and no innocents. |
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Imperfect Aeschylus
Simon Goldhill
The cult of the Oresteia and the impossibility of staging it |
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Cephalonia, alas
Mary Beard
ODYSSEUS UNBOUND. The search for Homer's Ithaca. By Robert Bittlestone. |
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Over the cliff
Tom Holland
THE SEA! THE SEA! The shout of the Ten Thousand in the modern imagination. By Tim Rood. |
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Nil nisi bonum
Mary Beard
White sheep, Italian waiters and what's Greek for Mushri? |
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