Money-making booksellers, exploited and impoverished authors, celebrity book launches and the danger of writing controversily. Sound familiar?
Although without the current technology of print-on-demand, digital publishing, even the lithographic or moveable type of not so long ago, the Roman world had a thriving publishing industry. Production was by teams of slaves (and some freedmen) […]
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Rome fascinates us, bewitches us even in the high tech 21st century.
It stretched for over 1229 years, it reached the heights (occasionally depths) of military achievement, produced the social, cultural and legal framework for the entire Western world, gave us its engineering genius and left us a richness in architecture, power politics, literature and […]
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The shocking news that the icon of Rome’s foundation, a life-size bronze statue of a she-wolf with two human infants suckling her, is about 1,700 years younger than its city hit the headlines this summer.
Scholars had long established that the bronze figures of Romulus and Remus feeding from their adopted wolf mother were added […]
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