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Vaznetti talks about liking the Romans, and with the Ides of March nearly upon us, I thought this was as good a time as any to make a short list of my favourite novels set in Ancient Rome (and in one case, Byzantium, but hey - it's the second Rome!). In no way is this my pathetic attempt to avoid spoiling myself for the BSG finale.In no particular order ( Read more... )

Yesterday, vaznetti posted the glorious "Roman Politics as A Fandom" . Which is just the way to present the history of the late Roman Republic. Forget about tv shows. That's the real thing, baby ( Read more... )

It must be a curse, cast at either the city of Bamberg, my parents' house or myself. For lo and behold, on Saturday there arrived another surprise parcel, this one by hmpf, also containing CDs, though with picture scans... and they're also unreadable on any of the computers in the house, of which there are several. Were it not for the fact that the CDs ( Read more... )