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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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Your guide to the Roman empire: when it was formed, why it split and how it failed, plus its most colourful emperors
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Your guide to the Roman Republic
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The Praetorian Guard: the emperors’ fatal servants
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Your guide to...
the fall of Rome
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Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?
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