Having been defeated by Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48BC, Pompey fled across the Aegean to Mytilene and then on to...

In looking at the demise of Geta, we saw how the second generation of the imperial Severan dynasty did not get along at all....

We all know the fate of Julius Caesar – 23 stab wounds, bleeding out on the floor of the Curia Pompeia on the Ides of March 44BC.   But...

Episode 50 - A grand rebellion in Egypt offers the Athenians the opportunity just how far they will go to strike a blow against the...

The murder of his brother and thousands of his supposed supporters, enriching the army to the detriment of imperial finances and his...

Episode 49 - The Athenians have begun to reach far and wide... for good and ill... with the extent of both seen in the form of the...

Upon the reading of Julius Caesar’s will in the house of Mark Antony on 19 March 44BC, a new heir to the Caesarian name and fortune was...

Episode 48 - The introduction to Pericles concludes with something of a 'murder mystery', which may have positively affected the great...

In all the numismatic discussions of ‘Carausius II’, who he might have been and when he might have attempted to rule, there is another...

Episode 47 - an introduction to Pericles, one of the leading men in the story of 5th century BC Greece, driving force behind much of...

“Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all others”   Dio 76.15.2   This is the advice that the emperor Septimius Severus reputedly...

Episode 46 - The fall out of the Ithome debacle begins with Athens becoming far more expansionist and imperialistic... Greeks and...

With his forces having secured the defeat and then murder of the pretender Pescennius Niger through victories at Cyzicus, Nicaea and...

After looking at ‘magi gold’ and the ‘tribute penny’, perhaps the most famous numismatic episode in Jesus’ life comes during his final...

Episode 45 - Another of Athens' most prominent men and skilled generals finds himself on the outside looking in as Cimon faces the music...

The fourth century may have played host to some Roman emperors of great stature - Diocletian, Constantine I and Theodosius I, but it also...

SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny   As to be expected with a Hollywood movie, particularly one that does not claim to be...

Episode 44 - With the Greeks at each other's throats (as per usual), the gods decide to demonstrate their displeasure... but with what?...

The Tribute Money by Titian Looking at the possibilities of what any numismatic golden gift that Jesus might have received as a newborn...

Episode 43 - With the Persian threat abating, the Greeks resort to their traditional opponents... each other......