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Were the ancient Romans men of austere probity, superior soldiers, masters of government? Is Rome a temple of the classic spirit? Was the Renaissance Italy's finest hour? Humbug, all humbug, says Menen in effect. As he sees it, ancient Rome's writers and pseudo sages produced a...
The Egyptian civilization that was greater, for nearly two thousand years, than anything before it, was almost spent by the first millennium B.C. The empire was shattered. The legacy of cultural greatness from the days of Ramses II was running out. Egypt was slowly overcome by an ennui that made...
Which Elizabeth? Wendy Wood's protest, delivered on the anniversary of Wallace's beheading in London in 1305, was a sharp reminder that despite 2½ centuries of union with England, Scotland's 5,169,000 people remain a proudly independent lot. The notion that the 1707...
Such competition set even the Romans to doing as the non-Roman tourists did: they shrugged off the heat, plunged into gloriously chaotic traffic jams and struggled out to see the greatest show in sports. For a close-up view of the athletes, Romans lined an elevated highway that passed...
Moreover, Jesus is loathed by everyone in Nazareth because, as a carpenter, he makes crosses on which the hated Romans crucify the prophets that rise periodically to liberate Israel. He struggles against God's call, but eventually he finds that he must surrender. And so his ministry begins, first...