Texts in Context: The Roman Empire After Rome
The reign of Justinian and Theodora seemed like it might be the recovery of a Roman Mediterranean; at first.
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Texts in Context: From Antiquity to the Mediævum
We have come now to, perhaps, the most libeled and distorted period in all of human history. Let’s clear a few things up before we properly begin!
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Texts in Context: Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part II
Texts in Context:Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers approximately the second half of Classical Antiquity, i.e. the late first century BC to the late
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Texts in Context: Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part I
Texts in Context:Timeline of Classical Antiquity—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers approximately the first half of Classical Antiquity, i.e. the early fifth to late first centuries
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Texts in Context: Nightfall on Classical Antiquity
Texts in Context:Nightfall on Classical Antiquity By Gabriel Blanchard Not with a bang, but with an administrative technicality. Constantine the Great History and pop culture tell us the
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Texts in Context: The Long Dusk of Antiquity
Texts in Context:The Long Dusk of Antiquity By Gabriel Blanchard The ancient world—from the morning glow on the Bronze Age, through the high noon of Periclean Athens and
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Texts in Context: Once, Now, and Forever
You can say what you like about the Emperor Nero. … No really, go ahead. The bloke’s dead, he can’t stop you.
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Texts in Context: The Pax Romana
Texts in ContextThe Pax Romana By Gabriel Blanchard “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” The Divine Logos Naturally it is impossible, in a format like this, to write
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Texts in Context: The Realm of the Second Temple
Texts in Context:The Realm of the Second Temple By Gabriel Blanchard Persia, Macedon, Seleucia, Egypt, and Rome strove for the empire of the earth; but one little province
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Texts in Context: The Roman Revolution
Texts in Context:The Roman Revolution By Gabriel Blanchard Rome had forever forsworn kings; she had reconciled the Orders; she had defeated her ghoulish rival Carthage. What remained, for
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