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Is it not, as Tacitus suggests, human nature to hate someone whom you have so conspicuously harmed?
Roger Kimball
A Princeton professor wants Classics to disappear because it has been used as a justification for slavery, colonialism and fascism
Peter Jones
At its best, the discipline taught us that our follies are as universal as our aspirations
Peter W. Wood
Tacitus made the Caledonian leader Calgacus remark that Romans ‘make a desert and call it peace’
Vitriolic pamphlets directed against Augustus were initially met with written rebuttals
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The ancient world was one in which there were laws, but no concept of human rights, or of the sanctity of life
For the modern journalist, rumor and inside sources, however attractive, often generate only fake news