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“The Roman empire cannot have been governed by a series of psychopaths. It would not have survived”
Mary Beard on Roman Emperors
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Tom Holland on Trajan
"He is vastly overrated"
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The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword
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The coin that celebrates Caesar’s murder
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From sex scandals to religious controversy: Rome’s forgotten emperor Heliogabalus
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Silbannacus: the Roman emperor that time forgot
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