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Citizens of ancient Rome didn’t mind slavery. As they saw it, there were Romans, and there was everyone else. In 70 B.C., slaves comprised 20 percent of the Roman population, and included Celts, Germans, and Thracians from modern-day Bulgaria. They also included a man named Spartacus.
A Thracian who fought in the Roman army, Spartacus was accepted in principle as a Roman but was exploited as a...
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Is Charles Dickens the new Leonardo Da Vinci?
Da Vinci — artist, inventor and literal Renaissance man — made a big comeback in 2003 with the novel The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown used a familiar manhunt plot as a framework on which to hang breathless details of religious conspiracies, centuries-old gossip, and rumors of telltale images hidden in Da Vinci’s masterpieces. The Da Vinci Code launched...
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Karl Marx famously said that history repeats itself, once as tragedy, twice as farce. King Lear may not have been an actual English regent, but he looms larger than most historical royals as the title role in one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. And if the Bard gave King Lear his tragedy, cult author Christopher Moore somersaults in for the farce with Fool.
The comedic novelist offers a bawdy,...
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Book Review - Ron Rash’s Serena is one witchy woman Book Review
Author and Western Carolina University professor Ron Rash rarely strays far from the mountains where he grew up and now teaches. His fourth novel, the Southern gothic tale Serena, opens in Depression-era Appalachia with a fatal power struggle.
North Carolina timber magnate George Pemberton returns from Boston with his bride, Serena, to find Rachel Harmon, the 16-year-old he had a brief tryst...
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It’s hard out there for a vegan. And not because vegans or even vegetarians secretly crave the Wendy’s Baconater, but because their values clash with the established status quo.
Stereotypes of wan hippies and crazy-eyed activists undermine the concrete moral and ethical issues behind the animal-rights-based movements. It’s for this reason that the first few sections of vegan and activist Gene...
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