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Tag Archives: Roman empire
LM Montgomery on “Ben Hur” by Lew Wallace
“There is a certain couplet in Ben Hur which always makes me incredibly homesick. No more does the Nile in the moonlight calm Moan past the Memphian shore. Gods! There comes the ache! I see that moonlit shore … I … Continue reading
Focus on: Hungary
The snow is falling outside, my kitchen is lit by candles, I had a fabulous writing group last night, I am happy. I have been going through my materials on Hungary, trying to figure out what I want to focus … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkans, Hungary, Robert Kaplan, Roman empire, Yugoslavia
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Macrinus
It had hitherto been considered as a fundamental maxim of the constitution, that the emperor must be always chosen in the senate, and the sovereign power, no longer exercised by the whole body, was always delegated to one of its … Continue reading
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Tagged Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, England, politics, Roman empire
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