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Tom Holland: Lessons from the Roman Empire

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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Pax: A History of the Roman Empire

Pax is the latest in Tom Cruise's history of the Roman Empire. It deals with a period where the Empire was at its most successful and peaceful. The book opens in AD68, which is the year that Nero commits suicide. He asks: what do we do now? How is Rome going to cohere?

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