Reconsiderations December 2020
More lasting than bronze
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On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
On Pliny the Younger, the BBC Proms & the Franco-Prussian War.
A review of Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome, by Douglas Boin.
On Roman frescoes, Jews of the Caucasus & the Renaissance copyeditor.
A review of How to Be A Bad Emperor by Suetonius, selected and translated by Josiah Osgood.
A review of Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss.
On the world’s favorite ruin, occasioned by the publication of The Rome We Have Lost, by John Pemble.
A review of Hadrian’s Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy.
On Plutarch as a moralist and historian.