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...

Roman Christmas Days I: 25 December 89BC - Triumph of Pompeius Strabo   On the first day of Roman Christmas, we present for thee… a...

Episode 39: The Delian League has won several victories to expand its dominance, but is there another expansion of domination going on...

'Carausius II' The usurpation of Carausius in the last quarter of the third century is a popular subject at the moment – the island of...

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...

Episode 38: The Delian league readies itself to take the fight to Persia, and we introduce ourselves to its leader, Cimon...

In the process of describing the Abbasid defeat and killing of the Umayyad caliph Marwan II in August 750, Theophanes the Confessor makes...

Episode 37: With the Panhellenic Alliance under new Athenian management, it now looks to take the fight to Persia with a renewed vigour...

After a headless horseman is directed back to Roman lines, under the watch of Maximus Decimus Meridius and his (still at that point)...

Episode 36: You might think that the man responsible for the strategies that defeated the Persian invasion at sea might have been treated...

Roman Britain had its fair share of imperial visits during its 350+ year existence. Without taking into account the numerous usurpers...

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...

***SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny*** Although it might not seem like it – one is a fictional Nazi physicist and the...

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...

While the focus of the Third Century Crisis that engulfed the Roman Empire falls upon the frequent military usurpations, large-scale...

Episode 33: Plataea might have liberated Greece, but what about the Greek cities in Asia under the Persian yoke? An expedition to free...

***SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny***   The opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with Indy and...