Keith Hopkins was, at the time of his death, professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of A World Full of Gods.
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Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. T... SEE MORE