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Witch Doctors  Greek Doctor and Patient i.e. Victim One of the most closely forgotten secrets in the history of civilization is t...

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

Homer and The Song of Roland Bust of Homer The following is a brief look at some of the anachronisms and errors in the Epic The S...

An Historical Screw Up Map of Mesopotamia In the early part of the third century B.C.E., two priests of local long established c...

The Philosopher as Tyrant Critias of Athens Critias One of the most common conceits among intellectuals is the fantasy / longi...

That Sinking Feeling Atlantis Part I Plato’s Purpose Destruction of Atlantis One of the most popular of myths has been Plato...

“They Are My Sons!” Oedipus and His Daughters Oedipus and his Daughters at Colonus In a previous posting I looked at the worki...

The Death of Socrates A Note The Death of Socrates by David One of the great tropes of the Western Tradition is the Death of S...

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 ...

Afternoon in Eprius Orestes murdering Clytaemnestra In a previous posting I posted a part of a play I was writing concerning Andr...

Note on some Nonsense and the Dark Ages Book Cover The following is a expanded version of a comment I left on the website Skeptic...

Notes on Pythagoras Painting Pythagoras' Hymn to the Sun The following story is told concerning Pythagoras the ancient Greek t...

Stolen Fantasy The Pyramids of Giza The following is an old posting I did years ago in reply to a posting at the Website In the Hall of Maa...

Homer’s World Interior of the Treasury of Atreus In a previous essay I talked about how Homer’s Epics The Iliad and Odyssey, although among ...