Category: Roman Britain
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Hadrian’s Wall: A Marvel of Roman Engineering
”And so, having reformed the army quite in the manner of a monarch, he set out for Britannia, and there he corrected many abuses and was the first to construct a wall, eighty miles in length, which was to separate the barbarians from the Romans” – Historia Augusta The wall commonly known as ‘Hadrians’ is…
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2,000 year old book about Roman Emperors enters bestseller charts
by Ella Creamer published on Monday 24 February 2025 in The Guardian The Lives of the Caesars, translated from the Latin by Tom Holland, details everything from ancient policy failures to sex scandals, and is a gossipy account of the lives of Roman emperors that has entered the bestseller charts – 2,000 years after it…
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