In 146 BC, the Mediterranean world must have been grasped by shock: two among the most important harbour cities in the world, Carthage and Corinth, were destroyed by the Romans in the course of the same year. ‘The two eyes of the sea coast were extinguished’, as Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3.91, … Continue reading empire, slavery, violence and Roman politics| Georgy Kantor's blog
Over the past four weeks, I have been reading with my students (distantly) the first few sections of Book 1 of Caesar’s De bello Gallico. We were focussing on grammar comprehension, but as usual, this has been useful not least for myself in thinking through the text, and its historical implications. Just a brief note about … Continue reading distracting attention the Roman way| Georgy Kantor's blog
The days of lockdown have inevitably caused a proliferation of book lists, and I am afraid I have fallen prey to the fashion too. So here is my choice of forty books (for the historic number of days in the quarantine) on Roman history between the fall of Carthage and the ‘third century crisis’, inevitably … Continue reading forty books on Roman history| Georgy Kantor's blog