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Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 06:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Daniel P. Tompkins" <pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
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The penultimate sentence below is just the one William Harris
contests: Rome was a special case, he says.

Dan

On Sat, 20 May 2000, James M. Pfundstein wrote:

> At 6:56 AM -0400 5/20/2000, Daniel P. Tompkins wrote:
> 
> This seems a little reductive. What evidence is there that Rome had a
> particular and defining "imperative to be cruel" that would justify a
> comparison to the Nazi police state, or even (less inflammatorily) the
> relatively short-lived empires of (neo-)Assyria and (neo-)Babylonia? There
> was cruelty in Rome, as indeed there is in every human culture (human
> beings being what they are). There were other features as well.

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