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...

Episode 32: The climax of the Second Persian Invasion of Greece has arrived... can the Greek coalition finish the job begun at...

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...

Episode 31: Victorious at Salamis, the Greeks can smell further victory on land, but does their alliance have the manpower and...

In a previous blog entry, we looked at the story of Oroetes, the rebellious Lydian satrap of the Persian Empire in the 520s BC. In the...

Episode 30: After a shocking and crushing Greek victory at Salamis, how will the God King Xerxes deal with his first defeat? How do the...

The Achaemenid Persian Empire was perhaps the first superpower of the ancient world, establishing its ‘King of Kings’ as an immensely...

You would be forgiven for thinking that this is a Biblical headline was about the story of Jonah and the Whale. However, looking past...

Episode 29; A Spartan king may lay dead on the the battlefield and Athens itself may be a burnt ruin, but the Greeks have a plan for the...

SPOILERS for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny The eponymous ‘Dial of Destiny’ was based on an actual mechanical device, the name of...