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"It is dressed in the majesty of centuries," wrote Plutarch, having gazed on the Acropolis above Athens. "It contains a living and incorruptible breath, a spirit impervious to age." Ever since the superb temple of the Parthenon was built atop the Acropolis in the 5th century B.C., it has survived...
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written, most scholars agree, by the Essenes, a mysterious, ascetic Jewish sect that was wiped out by the Romans about A.D. 70. The scrolls, slightly older than the New Testament, were hidden in some caves at Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea...
Still, like the Romans' feathered friends, the smokeys can help assure a restful night. A Los Angeles fireman who bought several battery-powered smoke detectors for his home put them unopened in the basement. Later that night they all erupted in wild ululation. A fire had started. The family survived...
The ancient Romans kept geese on their Capitoline hill to cackle alarm in the event of attack by night. For modern Americans, fire is nighttime's most dreaded foe?yet relatively few households are equipped with smoke detectors, the contemporary early-warning birds.
Where Vidal was liberal with sex scenes, Brass has been profligate: there are enough orgies to satisfy even Guccione, and phalluses in all sizes decorate walls, dinner plates and nearly everything else-with naked girls taking up the spaces in between. "To the Romans," notes McDowell, "sex was like driving...