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‘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, […] 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 […] 
The Baths at Caracalla, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1899 Baths were such an intrinsic part of the Roman world that we can’t think of one without the other. Everybody went to the baths – everybody. Today we see bathing as something we do privately in the home, but bathing in Rome was a communal, social […] |
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