The Prado of North Africa
Roman mosaics preserved in situ are a rare delight—most are typically uprooted and whisked away…
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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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A Linguistic Transit: From Greeks to Romans
You will recall that I once quoted Horace on the subject of Greek culture taking…
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The Twenty-Two Letters That Changed the World
As promised, the particulars of the Phoenician alphabet. It had twenty-two letters. They wrote from…
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From Abraham to the Land of Purple
As you will have gathered, we have been to Tunisia. The question may well have…
