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He failed to see that he had outraged all highborn Romans, who did not necessarily disapprove of homosexuality, but felt that Caesar had prostituted himself.
As Author Duggan describes it, his tactical genius was speed and surprise, his psychological genius was knowing the breaking point of his own men. In a tight spot, he could pick up a broadsword and lead a charge with the doughtiest of his centurions. He never killed for fun, but...
-D. H. Lawrence For centuries the Etruscans have been the shadowy forerunners of the Romans.
For Dessert and Lent. The snail, surviving all attacks, has interested man since earliest times. Cadart tells of Stone Age people who lived almost exclusively on snails. The Greeks loved snails both gastronomically and scientifically. Aristotle described them in detail; Pliny told how the Romans cultivated them for food. In...
Behind the Smile. The Etruscans' assurance of life after death, which amused the early Romans, gave Etruscan art one of the sunniest outlooks in history. Early Etruscan warriors were turned out in some of the handsomest armor ever made, and the statues which preserve them for posterity show them...