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Did the Romans Like Swearing?
It is one of the great incongruities of the English language that, despite being one of the most versatile and malleable forms of linguistic…
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Why Did the Romans Invade Britain?
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Was Rome a Brutal Place to Live In?
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How Did the Romans Solve Crimes?
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Acta Populi
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What Did the Romans Think the Moon Was Made From?
A few years ago, the artist Blake Fall-Conroy made an installation at the Met Modern, which consisted of a machine full of pennies and a crank handle.
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What Did the Romans Think of Stonehenge?
Stonehenge is, as everyone knows full well, a magic place, where the Moon doth rise with a dragon’s face, where the dew drops cry and the cats meow and…
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Potentially Interesting Roman History
Potentially Interesting Roman History
A Roman historian answers the weird, scandalous, and overlooked questions your schoolbooks were too polite to print.
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