‘Destruction’ by Thomas Cole, painted 1833–1836, part of a series ‘The Course of Empire’
Discussion of the the reasons for the ‘fall’ of the Western Roman Empire will go on forever and everybody will have their pet one. The classic book is The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, […]
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Main Via Flaminia in blue, later central alternative in pink and ‘branch line’ (Via Septempeda) in orange (CC licence source EH101)
‘All roads lead to Rome‘.
Actually, a fair number do, but it seems the saying wasn’t recorded as being coined by the Romans themselves. Of course, the Romans may well have said […]
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Roman relief depicting a travelling wagon (raeda) from a tomb from Virunum, Zollfeld, Austria
Drafting my new Roma Nova story set in the fourth century is slow, glacially slow at times. I know Roma Nova, I know its ‘history’, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of writing in a time […]
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