Papyrus by Irene Vallejo

Author:Irene Vallejo [Vallejo, Irene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

Apparently, the prudish Hollywood of the Hays Code, which censored kisses and double beds on-screen, considered this old story of mass abduction an ideal step toward a happy and cozy domestic life.

But Rome’s enemies saw in their murky foundational myths a foretaste and a warning of their later predatory disposition. One of those adversaries would write, centuries later, “From the very beginning, the Romans have owned nothing apart from what they have stolen: their home, their wives, their land, their empire.” In just fifty-three years, according to Polybius’s estimate, the descendants of the sinister and unscrupulous Romulus conquered the majority of the known world.

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