Ode to Virgil
Today we have a single, solitary mosaic. In the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia —…
Calliope
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Second Only to Rome
The rise of Utica was short-lived. As the Romans began cultivating grain upstream from the…
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Numidian Nomads and Cato’s Monomania
The interdiction against waging war without Rome’s express permission was established not in the name…
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The Poet Was Not Impressed
Back to Erzurum, then, as Pushkin saw it. Or rather, as he failed to. Begin…
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A Boy’s Own Summer at Erzurum
Having stepped aside for Kutuzov’s excursion from our survey of the Russo-Turkish wars — from…
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The Wrong Nomads
The Scythians have always been useful to other people. Herodotus devoted the fourth book of…
