Rome

The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. He was an accomplished military leader, .\r
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Discussing Evelyn Waughs comic novel Decline and Fall. Set partly in a substandard boys public school, the novel is a vivid, often riotous portrait of 1920s .\r
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Neoplatonism, the school of thought founded in the 3rd century AD by the philosopher Plotinus. Born in Egypt, Plotinus was brought up in the Platonic tradition, .\r
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For several weeks in late 1647, after the defeat of King Charles I in the first hostilities of the Civil War, representatives of the New Model Army and the radical .