The Roman Empire in 395 at the death of Theodosius (Map: Geuiwogbil at the English Wikipedia)
In 1984, a German academic, Alexander Demandt, published a book, Der Fall Roms, and he listed 210 reasons for the fall of Rome in the West.
Barbarians inside and outside the empire, Christianity, […]
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In the Roma Nova story, over four hundred Romans loyal to the old gods trekked north out of Italy in AD 395 to a semi-mountainous area similar to modern Slovenia.
Led by Apulius and his friend Mitelus at the head of twelve senatorial families, they established a colony based initially on land owned by […]
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Helena, mother of Constantine the Great (author photo, Naples Museum)
I set out to write a piece about women in the late Roman period – ambitious for a blog post I know, but I thought I could pull some threads out of a big subject and produce a digest. Not that easy, as […]
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