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 →
The Year of Reading Rome (a resolution) If you’re anything like me you make New Year’s resolutions about reading Mommsen and Gibbon, but then you get frustrated as you plan out your reading. Continue Reading →
