Word: romanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beard's Roman Women is openly autobiographical--doctors once gave Burgess only months to live, his wife unexpectedly died instead--and perhaps that explains the grim tone. But the novel never surmounts a cloying obsession with slow death and supernatural reincarnation; in the end, Burgess offers only black humor and muddled despair as Death wins out. The result is a novel long on bizarre plot twists and short on ideas: pointless death makes for a pointless novel...
...difficult to say if Rome fell at all," Bowersock said. When Germanic tribes succeeded Roman emperors in the fifth century A.D., it was "the elimination of a dynasty, not the end of an empire," he said...
Bowersock said the American-Roman comparison thrives today because of a "basic nostalgia people have in times of crisis for the past, a past about which they know very little...
Bowersock said there was no such thing as a middle class Roman. Wealthy upper class Romans managed to survive Rome's traumas by passing into the Church, according to Bowersock...
...middlesex Superior Court convicted Anthony B. Vaglica of Waltham, Carl Dixon of Jamaica Plain, and Louis R. Mathis, from Cambridge of stealing over 5000 ancient Greek and Roman coins on December...