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Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more.

The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius’ Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince’s military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a professional standing army, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory of deterrence through strength remains...

Among the towering figures of early Roman history, few embody the ideal of Roman virtue quite like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. To his contemporaries and to later generations, he stood as the living model of the *Vir Bonus *—the Good Man —whose life exemplified selfless civic duty and the principled restraint of power. For over two millennia, his story has inspired Western thought, serving as a timeless parable about leadership, sacrifice, and republican ideals. Cincinnatus lived in the turbulent early days of the Roman Republic (5th century BCE), shortly after the overthrow of the monarchy.

The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technologies, conveniences, and ideas, from running water, baths, and republican-style government to roads. Similarly, by the third century BCE, the Romans were prodigious monument builders, so much so that the memory of the great Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continues to exist within a cityscape of stone. Rome’s public spaces were filled with statues, arches, temples, and many other varieties of monumental images, and each of these structures had its own civic or religious function.