From Conquest to Cabbages
It is surely one of the ironies of Roman history that Diocletian, the emperor who guided Rome through one of the most turbulent periods of its history,…
It is surely one of the ironies of Roman history that Diocletian, the emperor who guided Rome through one of the most turbulent periods of its history,…
When the name Nero is heard, a few things are conjured up in our imagination. Nero the persecutor of Christians; Nero the brutal tyrant who embodied the…
Guy MacLean Rogers. For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66–74 CE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. The Jewish War…
We shall try fortune in a second fight. - Brutus Act 4 of the Julius Caesar has shown us that in a world devoid of divine providence,…
It is a widely accepted view in modern political philosophy that European civilization contains at its core a dichotomy of Judeo-Christian theological understanding of the world, on…
There is a classic passage in Vergil’s Aeneid in which Anchises commends to future Romans what is, in effect, the “mission statement” for the Roman Empire. In…
Roman law was the law of the city of Rome and subsequently of the Roman Empire. The influence of Roman law on modern legal systems has been…
The problem of power is one of perennial interest and importance in human life, but at no period in history has it presented itself with greater urgency…
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works. Kurt A. Raaflaub, ed. and trans. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017. As part of The Landmark Series, The Landmark…
The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives. Plutarch. Translated by Pamela Mensch with Preface and Notes by James Romm and Introduction by Mary Beard. New York: W.…
Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution. Benjamin Straumann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Crisis and…
St. Augustine and Varro's Civil Theology It is curious that both Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, while bitterly engaged in the struggle for existential representation of Christianity,…
Oakeshott on Rome and America. Eugene Callahan. Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic, 2012. Oakeshott’s critique of Rationalism is the most famous part of his corpus and also…