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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden AgeThe Pax Romana has long been revered as a golden age. At its peak, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Arabia, and contained perhaps a quarter of humanity. It was the wealthiest and most formidable state the world had yet seen. Beginning in 69AD, a year that saw four Caesars in succession rule the empire, and ending some seven decades later with the death of Hadrian, Pax presents a dazzling history of Rome at the height of its power. From the

The introduction sets out the main issues in interpretation and discusses the play's contexts in myth

love – is a central subject but so is death

the mind-body connection

Bringing together a full introduction

This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels’s groundbreaking work

that one day I will look back and regret everything I have done

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creative revenge on the women – mortal or otherwise – who catch the wandering eye of her husband Zeus

religious beliefs and entertainment

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" The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years

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