Thursday, March 27, 2025

First Paragraph

 It is night on the Palatine Hill, a historic height in the heart of Rome. Imagine yourself alone there after the tourists go home and the guards lock the gates. Even during the day, the Palatine is quiet compared with the crowded sites in the valleys below. At night, alone and given an eerie nocturnal run of the place, could you rouse imperial ghosts?

- From Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss

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