Although he preferred order to chaos, Virgil’s writing showed he knew there were ... with the complex relations at the heart of the Roman Empire. Virgil worked on “The Aeneid” for the ...
Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy ... things that they’ve dropped and left behind: shoes, writing tablets, little bits of weapons and armour and like a ...
Because he was writing about dead emperors who belonged ... and Suetonius still form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD.