Book Review: Taken at the Flood

Poe's neat pairing of "the glory that was Greece" and "the grandeur that was Rome" belies the complexity of Republican Rome's rapid expansion into the greater Mediterranean world and Asia Minor, the fascinating subject of Robin Waterfield's new book

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Book Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome

The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.

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