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The Romans had a rather clever adage, “in vino, veritas,” which in English loses its alliterative edge as, “in wine, there is truth.” Nevertheless, it remains particularly current in our increasingly warped cultural arena.
Europe is a geographical expression - a peninsula of peninsulas on the western edge of the Eurasian landmass - but there has never been a settled definition of its physical limits. Rather, historians, writers and politicians have long referred to a set of shared histories - conquest by the Romans, Christianity, the Enlightenment...
Also, we need to stop killing other people's messiahs. O.K., it was actually the Romans who killed Jesus, but we were there. And even if it had been us, you'd think the Catholics would thank us, since otherwise they'd have churches today full of statues of a...
Most of Glück’s collections, including “Averno,” have a central theme that runs through a series of long poems. Averno is volcanic crater in Italy that the Romans believed to lead to the underworld.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.