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The Fall of Rome

Martha Southgate
Chapters (20)
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. The Roman Way
  4. There Goes the Neighborhood
  5. They Say That It’s a Man’s World(But You Can’t Prove That by Me)
  6. The Past Is Prologue
  7. School Days
  8. Revelations
  9. Men Among Men
  10. The Wall of Pain
  11. Speed
  12. A Woman’s Life
  13. The Failures of the Flesh
  14. Boys to Men
  15. Long, Strange Trip
  16. The Bomb
  17. What’s Going On
  18. Control
  19. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cover Page

Title Page

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This book is for Joe Wood Jr.
(1964-1999)

—William Bell “You Don’t Miss Your Water”

You don’t miss your water
’til your well runs dry.

THE FALL
OF
ROME

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a novel

Martha Southgate

Scribner

THE FALL OF ROME

Martha Southgate

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2002 by Martha Southgate

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Southgate, Martha

The fall of Rome : a novel / Martha Southgate.

p. cm.

1. Teacher-student relationships—Fiction.

2. African American teachers—Fiction.

3. African American students—Fiction.

4. Boarding schools—Fiction.

5. Classicists—Fiction.

6. Boys—Fiction.

I. Title.

PS3569.O82 F35 2002

813′.54—dc21

2001034225

ISBN 0-684-86500-9

eISBN-13: 978-1-439-12549-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-684-86500-3

THE FALL
OF
ROME

Their outbreaks were terrible; civil wars such as our world has not seen again; dealings with conquered enemies which are a fearful page in history. Nevertheless, the outstanding fact about Rome is her unwavering adherence to the idea of a controlled life, subject not to this or that individual, but to a system embodying the principles of justice and fair dealing.

—Edith Hamilton, The Roman Way

But as we’ve seen, black America isn’t just as fissured as white America; it is more so. And the mounting intraracial disparities mean that the realities of race no longer affect all blacks in the same way.

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Future of the Race

The Roman Way