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PBS's Roman Empire: Once Again, History as Imperial Biography

By BETH SEVERY

Students of all periods of ancient history face the challenge of having to rely on the light cast by available evidence, and the latest addition to PBS's Empires series, The Roman Empire in the First Century, is no exception.

While the documentary's producers, Margaret Koval and Lyn Goldfarb, set out to tell "the story of that...

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