Reconsiderations December 2020
More lasting than bronze
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On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
Topic: “Roman History”
Sep 18, 2020
Week in review
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On Pliny the Younger, the BBC Proms & the Franco-Prussian War.
Jul 09, 2020
Knocking at the gates
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A review of Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, by Douglas Boin.
Jun 19, 2020
Week in review
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On Roman frescoes, Jews of the Caucasus & the Renaissance copyeditor.
Jun 16, 2020
The best of Rome’s worst
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A review of How to Be A Bad Emperor by Suetonius, selected and translated by Josiah Osgood.
Features March 2019
Always I am Caesar
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A review of Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss.
Features November 2018
Eternally ours
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On the world’s favorite ruin, occasioned by the publication of The Rome We Have Lost, by John Pemble.
Reconsiderations June 2018
They built the wall
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A review of Hadrian’s Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy.
Features December 2000
Plutarch & the issue of character
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On Plutarch as a moralist and historian.