ROME
September 2015
Jochen Bleichen's biography of the Emperor is monumental but highly readable
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June 2015
The cento is a sophisticated and demanding poetic form — and best suited to schoolboyish ends
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May 2015
How much truth is there in the myth of the "noblest Roman"?
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September 2009
Could anxiety over the future of the West be behind the publication of so many books on the fall of the Roman Empire?
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