Re: Empire - Steven Saylor

From	Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
Newsgroups	humanities.classics
Subject	Re: Empire - Steven Saylor
Date	2025-08-24 14:14 +0100
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Rich Alderson wrote:
> Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> writes:
> 
>> Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> writes:
> 
>>>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Epic-Novel-Ancient-Rome/dp/1849019622
> 
>>>> Have you read Suetonius' Twelve Caesars? Or Robert Graves' I Claudius?
>>>> Or Mary Beard's SPQR? I have. The story is so well known, handled by so
>>>> many that it's become almost hackneyed and trite.
> 
>>> _SPQR_ is on my TBR shelf.  The others are long in the past.
> 
>>>> But I recently stumbled across Steven Saylor's book, and I'm loving it.
>>>> It's immensely long, written as a novel, but it covers the history of
>>>> Rome from Augustus to the Antonines; and does so in a way that makes it
>>>> more real and palpable than anything I've ever read previously.
>>>> And it's not just narrative and action; it's full of erudite discussion
>>>> about the changing times and events.
> 
>>> You will probably enjoy the predecessor volume, entitled _Rome_, which does
>>> the same ab urbe condita to the fall of the Republic.  _Empire_ is, needless
>>> to say, also on the TBR shelf...
> 
>> Nice to hear from you, Rich. You founded this NG.
>> It used to be well populated until recently. Do you think there's any
>> chance of rescuing it from its moribund state?
> 
> Hi, Ed, it's nice to be remembered!
> 
> I doubt that any newsgroup can be rescued.  It appears that the only non-
> robotic users of Usenet are a few diehards who inhabit their favorite old
> haunts out of sheer cussedness.
> 
> But it's nice to see occasional non-spam posts.
> 

I know one or two thriving groups in Usenet. And look at these statistics;
https://www.newsdemon.com/usenet-newsgroup-feed-size
It's growing!

In the case of your humanities.classics there's another factor at play; 
the decline of general study of classical cultures.
I know of few web forums such as https://www.textkit.com/latest
but I feel that we could revive your group by posting articles there and 
attracting people.

Ed

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Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-22 18:43 +0100
  Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-08-22 18:53 -0400
    Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-23 18:57 +0100
      Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-08-23 18:39 -0400
        Re: Empire - Steven Saylor Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-08-24 14:14 +0100

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