Features September 2023
The Roman custom
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On ancient violence & modern judgment.
Topic: “Roman History”
Books January 2023
In eis plurimae litterae
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Features May 2022
Living the “Satyricon”
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On the Roman novel by Petronius.
Books February 2022
There is none else
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Reconsiderations December 2020
More lasting than bronze
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On the many translations of a famous ode by Horace.
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.