Against Arguello, few thought Pryor would win. More to the point, the publicwantedAlexis to succeed and make history, and the stands at the cavernous Orange Bowl in Miami filled up with thousands of Latin-Americans eager to see their hero become a superstar. But the anti-Pryor crowd didn’...
The incorporation of Greek culture in Roman society began in earnest, however, in the late third and second centuries b.c.e., when Rome was reaching the definitive stage of military supremacy with the defeat of its major rival, Carthage. The first known works of Roman literature adapt the ...