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Once, on the east bank of the Jordan, the Greeks founded the League of Ten Cities, the Romans built baths and forums, and 1,500,000 people dwelt in plenty and exported wheat to Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only...
GASPARE DEL BUFALO (1786-1837) was exiled from his native Rome, shortly after he became a priest, by Napoleon's occupation. To care for the Romans, who had been left almost without a clergy during the occupation years, Father del Bufalo founded the Society of the Precious Blood, an...
The Romans were reluctant seamen; whenever they could, they traveled by land over their famed roads. Their empire, nevertheless, was held together by seaborne commercial and naval power. Their predecessors-the Greeks. Phoenicians and Cretans-went down to the sea by preference. For thousands of years their galleys and potbellied...
Romans found the choral music interesting, occasionally quietly melodious,and beautifully sung. They gave the work respectful applause, although they found the production as a whole just too much to take in, and never quite understandable. Old (61) Darius Milhaud, who was on hand for the occasion, had no such...
"The principles for which the Confederates fought did not begin with secession . . ." thundered Tom. "[They] come down to us from the heroic pages of antiquity. They may be read in the history of ... the Roman Empire and the defeat of the Roman Legion before the birth of Christ in the...