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This week the thorough German curiosity of Hitler about Littoria is causing Italians gladly to rehearse in detail the history of 2,500 years and more. Littoria is a stretch of land 15 mi. wide by 50 long lying between the Lepine Mountains, which drains down onto its bogs and...
In a discussion of teaching versus research, Professor Jones distinguished between two opposing temperaments: the type that likes its opinions readymade; and the intellectually curious. The Romans, he said, belonged to the first type, great empire-builders partly because of their "honest stupidity". The Greeks, who created the culture that...
He compared American colleges to the Romans, and universities to the Greeks.
Because of her tremendous, sharp-beaked nose, like the prow of a war galley (see cut, p. 79), the Romans were easily led to believe that Cleopatra had to hold her men with knockout love drops. The kind of men she seduced made her sex appeal even more mysterious. Tall...
On p. 38 of TIME, Oct. 18, in your discussion of ceramics, you quote Roman Pliny -"Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such...