A Soldier and a Scholar 47: Pericles, Titan of Athens I
Episode 47 - an introduction to Pericles, one of the leading men in the story of 5th century BC Greece, driving force behind much of...
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......
SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Passing through a French chateau, a Berlin-bound Nazi plunder train, a professor’s...
O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their words. We all know the story of the Battle of Thermopylae,...
Episode 42 - The Delian League takes a turn towards naked empire, as Cimon and his cohorts turn on their own......
SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny “Search where Dionysius... hears each whisper... like a hurricane.” Using the...
By the turn of the 9th century, the frontiers of the Roman Empire had contracted significantly since its heyday. Even with some limited...
Episode 41: The Delian League, with Cimon at its head, fulfils its purpose with a decisive defeat of the Persians......
At almost the very outset of his life, the newborn Jesus of Nazareth was presented with three gifts by the magi – gold, frankincense,...
Episode 40: The Delian League continues its string of victories, but what happens when it turns its attentions against one of its own......
SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny According a conversation between Helena Shaw and Indiana Jones regarding the work of...