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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | Alice Roberts, Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, (Simon and Schuster, 2025), 413 pp. There is no shortage of excellent books on both the end of the Roman Empire and on the formation of Christendom. Most are by expert historians, many are recent and several are highly accessible works aimed at the general reader. So it may be wondered why another such book has been released and why a non-historian - a biologist -... Read More Read More | |
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talesoftimesforgotten.com
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| | | | | For decades, ancient Rome has been associated in the popular imagination with orgies. Indeed, perhaps the very first thing most people think of when they hear the words "ancient Rome" are Roman orgies. The problem is that there is no good evidence that orgies were ever at all common in ancient Rome. In fact, we ... Continue reading "Why "Roman Orgies" Weren't Really a Thing" | |
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aeon.co
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| | | | | Vandals, Goths, Alemanni, Sueves the Romans grappled endlessly with the status of ethnic peoples in their vast empire | |
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khanya.wordpress.com
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| | | I recently discovered that some Roman Catholics are getting into a tizz because of a "new" translation of the Nicene Creed. Hat-tip to Bosco Peters for pointing this out: Extraordinariate | Liturgy: Dissatisfaction with the 2011 English Roman Missal translation continues. Some communities, as I predicted, only ever say the Apostles Creed (a novelty), not... | ||
