Thursday, September 29, 2016

Still pertinent after all these years…

… Mary Beard: The glory of Rome | National Post.

2 comments:

  1. Indeed, but " The main reason that London is the capital of the United Kingdom is that the Romans made it the capital of their province Britannia ... ". Surely it resembles the site of many very prominent cities: on a river near the head of tide and the fords nearest the sea.

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  2. That's what I always thought.

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