“I’ve just discovered you(through History Extra podcast), so I’ll have a few days’ worth of listening. But it seems this one has ended last April. I think you’re terrific. I’m about to buy your latest books. Thank you from an ex-classicist and retired professor of Italian studies.
Edited to say, however, that Tomis was not on the moon. The city was founded by Greek merchants from Miletus in the 6th century BCE (so not that far from the founding of Rome in 753BCE) and was an important port on the Black Sea. It was conquered by the Romans in 71 BC and renamed Constantiana by Roman Emperor Constantine in honor of his half-sister. It was destroyed by the Avars in 597.
Finally one more point: your guest, so ungracious towards Tomis, spoke the most dreadful Latin I had the misfortune to hear.”
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08/22/23