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Eighteenth-century British historian Edward Gibbon famously wrote, “The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness.” More than two centuries and countless scholarly debates later, British historian Alexander Demandt wryly observed, “The only thing historians agree on…
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The World of Manet: 1832-1883 (1968) by Pierre Schneider
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2014) by Eric H. Cline
I have read widely about Classical Antiquity and have even dabbled a bit in ancient Egypt,…
