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Abstract This chapter explores how Wilde understood the relationship between the Roman past and the British Victorian present. Wilde had studied Classics (Literae Humaniores) at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford, and therefore had a background in the history, literature, and culture of Rome that enabled him to ...
Fleury, Philippe, Madeleine, Sophie
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Ancient Rome

2020
In 200 BC, the population of the city of Rome was 200,000. By AD 50, this figure had increased fivefold, an unprecedented burst of urban expansion. Moses Finley’s much-contested thesis that Rome was parasitic implies that the city’s growth could only have brought discomfort to the peoples of the Mediterranean.
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Ancient Rome

2011
Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia.
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In Ancient Rome

2020
Abstract The history of reading in antiquity is wholly dependent on literary sources that must be read with care; one misinterpreted passage can enable an entire misguided history. This is the case with Augustine’s account of Ambrose reading silently, and the tenacious misapprehension that such reading was impossible in antiquity ...
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