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Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome ... have violence injected into our political life. I had no idea that within ...

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Scholars have identified interesting parallels between the military alliances of NATO and the ancient Athenian-led Delian League.

Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is back with the highly anticipated Gladiator II, proving there's no ...