[oldplayer]

Thanks, Sunken.
I’ll put it on the list right behind VDH’s “A War Like No Other.” Reading Tacitus is like drinking out of a fire hose. The names, the allegations, the lies’ the murders, they just keep on coming page after page.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Read it several years ago. Every time I see a covered football arena I am reminded of the disaster at Fidinae. 20 thousand dead in the arena collapse.

[SunkenCiv]

I just tracked down a hardcover copy of the VDH, thanks for the suggestion. Of course, there’s a risk that I already *have* it and started to read it, but I think it was this one, which pertains to earlier events:

The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece — and Western Civilization
by Barry Strauss
July 5, 2005

(it’s around here somewhere, with a bookmark in it)