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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Rome Conquered Greece. And Then Greece ‘Conquered’ Rome

“Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued, And Rome grew polished, who till then was rude.” Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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