Reading Rome (Mommsen, 1.4) Mommsen continues to rely upon dubious etymology to make historical conjectures, but several times seems aware of the relative unimportance of such sp
Reading Rome (Mommsen, 1.3) Just a caveat: I tend to read argumentatively, but it doesn’t mean that I think I know more or better than the author. I find it a productive way of r Continue Reading →
Reading Rome (Mommsen, 1.1-2) This all started, as most resolutions do, as a ridiculously ambitious plan that got far out of hand. I was going to read Grote (I have the first 11 of Continue Reading →
