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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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

‘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...

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