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Chapter 12: A Fresh Start - The Analog Antiquarian
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Greek Intellectual Life under the Roman Empire - Antigone
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| | CHARLES FREEMAN Did Roman rule suppress Greek genius?
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The Augustinian Settlement | Goldwag's Journal on Civilization
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| | The Augustus of Prima Porta, (c. 14-29 CE), Vatican Museums In 30 BCE, the armies of Octavian decisively defeated Mark Anthony at the Battle of Actium. By the end of the year, both Anthony and his lover Cleopatra had killed themselves, and the young heir of Caesar stood triumphant over the Roman world, having finally...
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The Great Myths 5: The Destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria - History for Atheists
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| | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More
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Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords - A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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| This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions.?As we're going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space as the gladius...