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The Romans perfected it. The Anglosphere inherited it. The world is now mired in it.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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The Conflict of the Orders
Mary Beard • SPQR
Roman history in this later period is in some ways much more familiar than anything earlier. It was during these centuries that most of those famous ancient landmarks still standing in the city of Rome were constructed: from the Colosseum, erected as a place of popular entertainment in the 70s CE, to the Pantheon (‘Temple of All Gods’), built fifty
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Among all the things we fancy we have inherited from ancient Rome, from drains to place names, or the offices of the Catholic Church, the calendar is probably the most important and the most often overlooked. It is a surprising link between that early regal period and our world.