‘Carausius II’: An Unknown British Usurper?
'Carausius II' The usurpation of Carausius in the last quarter of the third century is a popular subject at the moment – the island of...
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As the City Falls: A Forgotten Usurper
With Alexios III having fled in the face of the Fourth Crusade and the new father-son regime of Isaac II and Alexios IV essentially being...
A Soldier and A Scholar 38 - Cimon Cometh
Episode 38: The Delian league readies itself to take the fight to Persia, and we introduce ourselves to its leader, Cimon...
Was Umayyad Caliph Marwan II a Heretic?
In the process of describing the Abbasid defeat and killing of the Umayyad caliph Marwan II in August 750, Theophanes the Confessor makes...
A Soldier and A Scholar 37 - The Rise Of The Delian League
Episode 37: With the Panhellenic Alliance under new Athenian management, it now looks to take the fight to Persia with a renewed vigour...
The 'German Leader' in Gladiator
After a headless horseman is directed back to Roman lines, under the watch of Maximus Decimus Meridius and his (still at that point)...
A Soldier and A Scholar 36 - The Ballad of Themistocles
Episode 36: You might think that the man responsible for the strategies that defeated the Persian invasion at sea might have been treated...
The Last Roman Emperor to Campaign in Britain
Roman Britain had its fair share of imperial visits during its 350+ year existence. Without taking into account the numerous usurpers...
A Soldier and a Scholar 35 - The Twilight of the God King
Episode 35: Humbled in Greece, you might think that Xerxes would not last long on his Persian throne, but he still had another 15 years...
IJDOD III: Indiana Jones and Operation Paperclip
***SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny*** Although it might not seem like it – one is a fictional Nazi physicist and the...
A Soldier and a Scholar 34 - The Allies Fracture
Episode 34: With the defeat of the invasion, the Greeks look to plan a new offensive, but cannot help but fall back into the old ways of...
Frankish Pirates of the Mare Nostrum
While the focus of the Third Century Crisis that engulfed the Roman Empire falls upon the frequent military usurpations, large-scale...
A Soldier and A Scholar 33 - The Battle of Mycale
Episode 33: Plataea might have liberated Greece, but what about the Greek cities in Asia under the Persian yoke? An expedition to free...
IJDOD II: Indiana Jones and the Spear of Longinus
***SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny*** The opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with Indy and...
A Soldier and A Scholar 32 - The Battle of Plataea II
Episode 32: The climax of the Second Persian Invasion of Greece has arrived... can the Greek coalition finish the job begun at...
‘The Groans of the Britons’
The ‘end of Roman Britain’ raises many of the same type of question as the ‘fall of the Roman Empire’. It must have ended in some manner...
A Soldier and A Scholar 31 - The Battle of Plataea I
Episode 31: Victorious at Salamis, the Greeks can smell further victory on land, but does their alliance have the manpower and...
After Him! Persians in Italy?: Democedes of Croton and Darius I
In a previous blog entry, we looked at the story of Oroetes, the rebellious Lydian satrap of the Persian Empire in the 520s BC. In the...
A Soldier and A Scholar 30 - The God King Bleeds
Episode 30: After a shocking and crushing Greek victory at Salamis, how will the God King Xerxes deal with his first defeat? How do the...
Crucifixion and Comeuppance: Oroetes the Satrap
The Achaemenid Persian Empire was perhaps the first superpower of the ancient world, establishing its ‘King of Kings’ as an immensely...
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