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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...

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...

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

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 Dark Side Augustus The Roman Empire is too this day greatly admired, but a lot of that admiration is based on the fact that ...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire A Note on Three Myths Sack of Rome 410 C.E. The Decline of the Roman Empire is one of...

The Ides of March Some Thoughts Caesar getting the "point" on March 15, 44 B.C.E. Ides simply means middle in Latin bu...

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...

The Origins of the first Servile War Diodorus’ Version Map of Sicily In the years after Rome’s defeat of Carthage, (201 B.C.E.), Rome becam...

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

The Trial of Jesus Jesus on Trial before Pilate On this Easter weekend it is perhaps germane to discuss probably the most significant tri...

The Fall of the Roman Republic a Note The Roman Empire 60 B.C.E. The fall of the Roman Republic and its replacement by the Roman Imp...