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Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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By Peter Stothard, Mariano Zarza, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
| Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Preview In May 2025, Peter Stothard’s Horace, Poet on a Volcano was published, adding to Yale University’s Ancient Lives series. Among the earlier modern biographies of the Roman poet are those by Alfred Noyes (1947) and Peter Levi (1997). Stothard, with his elegant prose, weaves together information faithfully drawn from ancient documents and Horace’s own poems to offer us this new biography for the new century. His main intention is to show us the man Horace behind the lines.
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Horoscopes and horror – the reign of Septimius Severus | The Spectator Australia

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By Peter Stothard
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus Icon Books, pp.304, 25 Rome’s first African emperor, Septimius Severus, was renowned during his reign (193-211 AD) for the mass killings of his rivals (ruthlessness even by ancient standards); for his genocide against the Scots (a rare recourse, despite Rome’s bad reputation as imperialists); and his budget-stretching generosity to his soldiers.
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Eça de Queirós revisits Adam and Eve

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By Franklin Nelson, Peter Stothard, Rose George, Christopher Harding
| The Spectator (World) Verified
When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a “catalogue of cruelties” at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response from the Catholic Church in Portugal was fast and frosty. The country’s conference of bishops labeled his comments “offensive,” adding: “Insults do no one any good, particularly from a Nobel prizewinner.” Saramago might have been taking his cue from the man he considered to be Portugal’s greatest novelist.
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