A Soldier and A Scholar 43 -Good Friends, Better Enemies
Episode 43 - With the Persian threat abating, the Greeks resort to their traditional opponents... each other......
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IJDOD V: Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Archimedes
SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Passing through a French chateau, a Berlin-bound Nazi plunder train, a professor’s...
300 Spartans (1962) and the Battle of Thermopylae
O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their words. We all know the story of the Battle of Thermopylae,...
A Soldier and A Scholar 42 - Cimon and Thasos
Episode 42 - The Delian League takes a turn towards naked empire, as Cimon and his cohorts turn on their own......
IJDOD V: Indiana Jones and the Ear of Dionysius
SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny “Search where Dionysius... hears each whisper... like a hurricane.” Using the...
Still Projecting Power: The Romans and the Fortress of Sarkel
By the turn of the 9th century, the frontiers of the Roman Empire had contracted significantly since its heyday. Even with some limited...
A Soldier and a Scholar 41 - An End to the Persian Threat
Episode 41: The Delian League, with Cimon at its head, fulfils its purpose with a decisive defeat of the Persians......
Precious Metals at the Beginning and End of Jesus’ Life I: Magi Gold
At almost the very outset of his life, the newborn Jesus of Nazareth was presented with three gifts by the magi – gold, frankincense,...
A Soldier and a Scholar 40 - Delian Domination II
Episode 40: The Delian League continues its string of victories, but what happens when it turns its attentions against one of its own......
IJDOD IV: Indiana Jones and the Polybius Square
SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny According a conversation between Helena Shaw and Indiana Jones regarding the work of...
Roman Christmas Days
Roman Christmas Days I: 25 December 89BC - Triumph of Pompeius Strabo On the first day of Roman Christmas, we present for thee… a...
A Soldier and a Scholar 39 - Delian Domination
Episode 39: The Delian League has won several victories to expand its dominance, but is there another expansion of domination going on...
‘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...
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...
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