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...

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)...