Juan Eslava Galán reveals the true causes of the irremediable fall of the Roman Empire

2024-10-24 02:24:00

The writer analyzes a thousand years of history of the Eternal City in his new fictional essay

Juan Eslava Galán, in Complutum, on the outskirts of Madrid JAVIER OCAÑA

Hadrian, his beard blowing in the wind, spent eight years walking through the ‘limes romanus’: the broad borders that protected the ‘Urbs aeterna’. And he did it, according to chronicles such as the ‘Historia Augusta’, because he wanted to “learn personally everything he had read about the different…

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