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Professor Lauren Hackworth Petersen received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in ancient Roman art and architecture. She has also done extensive research in Greek and ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

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