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Late 19th Century Imperialism in the Hellenistic World Map of Hellenistic World   There are many tiresome tendencies in scholarly...

Hannibal’s Mistake? Hannibal In Livy’s series of books about the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.E.) there is a scene in which after...

Child Killers? The Trophet of Carthage One of the most notorious of “facts” concerning the ancient Carthaginians is that they in...

History as Myth Early Rome The Wolf Suckling Romulus and Remus One of the great works of literature is Livy’s History of Rome ...

Going Nowhere Ktesias - Conman Conmen and fraudsters have been the bane of human existence for thousands of years but perhaps one ...

The “Dog-Marriage” Crates and Hipparchia In a previous posting I talked about the Greek thinker Diogenes, the founder of Cynicis...

Dog in a Barrel Diogenes the Bum Diogenes in his Barrel With Dogs Most people if they have heard about Diogenes at all will ha...

Colonialism Sucks Book Cover It is a truism that the context in which a particular historical period is viewed affect how a pa...

The Nile and Diogenes Lake Victoria, Lake Albert and the Head Waters of the Nile  It is extremely unlikely that the overwhelmi...

Homer Tilted into Absurdity Ancient bust of Homer The following is a slightly reworked version of a few postings1 I did a few years ...

Claudius’ “Pumpkinification” Emperor Claudius One of the most curious pieces of surviving classical Latin literature is The Apocolocyntosis...

Adverso Athens I Introduction Statute from the Erechtheion Acropolis, Athens One of the great intellectual clichés in the Western intellect...

The Degree of Themistocles and Military Probability Degree of Themistocles One of the most significant events in history was the successful...

A Note on The Peace of Kallias The Eastern Mediterranean A rather interminable and endless debate as centred on the historical veracity of ...