A post from 2017 but updated for 2024 and again for 2025 as little seems to change…
The Death of Caesar, Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798 (public domain)
It’s March 2025 and here we are again. the war in Ukraine continues, the despot in the Kremlin is still trying to land grab like a gangster. […]
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British Museum display (Author photo)
Probably because of various Hollywood films, it’s “general knowledge” that those nasty Romans spent all their time killing Christians.
Well, no…
Romans, for the most part, were comparatively tolerant in matters of religious belief and allowed countless religious sects, cults, saviours and redeemers to proselytise without restrictions. Most […]
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Rome, September AD 392
[Lucius Apulius narrates. It’s dawn and he’s going to wish his friend and brother in arms, Gaius Mitelus, a good journey as Gaius goes off to join the rival emperor Eugenius’s forces.]
The Mitelus domus wasn’t far away, perched on the summit of the Mons Cispius, part […]
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