Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A bit better than the Grant, but longer

Furthermore ...-Fails to take stock of the moral implications of gladiatorial contests for the Romans.-Contains a crushing weight of detail regarding municipal organisation for the reader to skip.-Contains very little on the end of the Empire and what followed it.-Cary and Scullard are Empire apologists, claiming the Romans stumbled into possession of an empire they never wanted, while still being good enough to say they consistently laid down provocatively -- indeed unacceptably -- harsh pre-conflict terms of peace.-Virtually ignores the beginnings of Christianity entirely (which may or may not be of passing interest even to a secular spiritualist, depending on whether or not you know).