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 Continue Reading →
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 →
