Barry Strauss is the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, Corliss Page Dean Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the author, most recently, of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium (Simon & Schuster).
The fall of Rome, as much as its rise, continues to rivet us.
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