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You're welcome. I'm reading very slow, about halfway through now. Great book.
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Finished the book a couple of days ago. Very good. What did you think?
I now have nostalgia for a building I never saw, the Temple of Serapis. Nixey's descriptions of its beauty made the razing of it so poignant.
And the fates of Hypatia of Alexandria and Demascius, so sad.
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Just bought this after watching Chomsky being interviewed by Laurence Krauss, looks fascinating. Basic premise: after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire there was unleashed a terror upon the classical world of such savagery that the religious oppression by ISIL in the modern era would look puny by comparison.