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Edward Gibbon
June 6, 2024
Mike Duncan
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.
November 16, 2012
G.W. Bowersock
How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome
March 26, 2010
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Oh, the Humanities!
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Henry Fairlie
The Shot Heard Round The World
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