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Josephine Quinn

Josephine Quinn teaches ancient history at Oxford and is currently a Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.  (January 2020)

Agrippina crowning her son Nero emperor of Rome, 54 CE; relief from the Sebasteion, an excavated temple in the ancient city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey

Mothers and Emperors

Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

by Guy de la Bédoyère

January 16, 2020 issue

Caesar Bloody Caesar

In Rome, as in Gaul, human rights were nonexistent, and life was cheap

The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War

edited and translated from the Latin by Kurt A. Raaflaub

March 22, 2018 issue

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