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The ancient Romans have become favourite villains of every archaeologist seeking to put an anti-imperialist spin on an exciting new find or of every TV historian drawing cheap parallels with George Bush’s administration. It seems that ancient Rome was essentially the British empire with gladiators. Or even a predecessor of the Third Reich, according to […]
The ancient Romans have become favourite villains of every archaeologist seeking to put an anti-imperialist spin on an exciting new find or of every TV historian drawing cheap parallels with George Bush’s administration. It seems that ancient Rome was essentially the British empire with gladiators. Or even a predecessor of the Third Reich, according to such overstated attacks as made in the archaeologist Francis Pryor’s book, Britain BC, which denounces the Roman invasion of Britain as “a black moment”. Well, if you think literacy and bathing are oppressions…
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