CLASSICAL CORNER

FORTEANA FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD COMPILED BY BARRY BALDWIN

304: BUILD THE WALL! Obvious titular debt to YOU-KNOW-WHO. No evidence Hadrian expected the Scots to pay for it. Melania walked on it. Pierre Trudeau danced on it. Richard Nixon, faced with it, gushed “It’s a great wall”. Niall Ferguson saw it as a cultural statement: This Side Civilisation. The Other Side Barbarians – over to Nicola Sturgeon. Latest addition to the cornucopian bibliography is Adrian Goldsworthy’s Hadrian’s Wall (2018). Anything by Brian Dobson is worth reading. See also Hunter Davies’s travelogue, A Walk Across the Wall (1974). And don’t forget the classically inclined Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Puck’s Hill (1906), of which Anthony Burgess (One Man’s Chorus, 1998) observed: “When he placed a particular Roman legion on Hadrian’s Wall, the scholars said he was wrong. Later, they discovered that…

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