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Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?
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Goths: everything you wanted to know
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Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor
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Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors
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Crassus: Rome’s richest man
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Could Roman slaves buy their own freedom?
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The reign of Roman disease: why did disease hit a flourishing empire?
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Have empires ever been a force for good?
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Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s reluctant killer
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In the footsteps of Germanicus – a Roman General’s journey to Egypt
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A guide to the Roman army, plus 10 facts about life in the legions
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Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?
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Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?
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Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?
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What was the Roman Empire’s greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9
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