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Roman Empire
Sometimes I wish I’d stayed up in the Apennines where there were no mosquitoes, just giant wasps
I spotted a lissom blonde in green T-shirt and tie-dye trousers. We fell in step as we approached the gift shop
Emperors from Titus to Hadrian avoided civil war at all costs, but the mass destruction or enslavement of other peoples was another matter
Professor Mary Beard told me: ‘I must confess that I probably think about the Roman Empire about fifty times a day’
Had the Thirty Years’ War been labeled this way, we might well have accorded it a more important place in our understanding of the modern world
The great war photographer has now brought to life some of the finest ruins of the ancient world
