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Excavations on Greek Mount Ellanio have found something new: a fortified enclosure. The compound was used by Mycenean refugees from the Bronze Age collapse.
By the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that “diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte way to Rome”. But it would now seem that Chaucer and his readers were labouring under a misapprehension. As Oxford professor Josephine Quinn points out in her expansive new book, How the World Made the West, the roads leading to Rome in ancient times were, in literal terms, relatively few, for the city sat apart from the main trade routes. Some later emper