“Week in review,” by Anatoly Grablevsky

“Week in review,” by Anatoly Grablevsky

Recent stories of note:  “Profiles in Power”Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books “True or not” is a phrase that crops up repeatedly in Gregory Hays’s review of two books by Mary Beard on Roman emperors and a book by Peter Stothard on the Roman Vitelli family. Hays identifies a trend in current Roman historiography where colorful, almost certainly apocryphal anecdotes about the Caesars are not dismissed out of hand, as was done in the twent…