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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Closes Its College
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How did Mao Lead China, and What did He Leave Behind?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Why Socrates Matters
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Beautiful Birds from Isaac Sprague’s Natural History 1839-1842
The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac...
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The images below are watercolour sketches by Isaac Sprague from the 1840s. “Isaac Sprague (1811–1895) was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and apprenticed with his uncle as a carriage painter. He was a self-taught landscape, botanical and ornithological painter. Sprague served...
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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Will it Bend or Will it Break?
The international system, that is.
a year ago
The international system, that is.
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great...
10 months ago
This is the second part of the second part of the second part of our four part look at the great third and second century BC contest between the Romans and the heirs of Alexander, asking the question, “What can defeat a Macedonian sarisa-phalanx?” Last time, we started looking at...
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The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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African History...
The General History of Africa
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
9 months ago
a comprehensive look at states and societies across the continent's entire history.
Classical Wisdom
ICYMI: Emperors, Conquerors and Saints
New Cabins *NOW* Available
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New Cabins *NOW* Available
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Why Did Italy Switch Sides During the World Wars?
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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Claudius: The Roman Emperor Who Became a Pumpkin
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How Was Mussolini Removed From Power?
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How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)
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A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
a year ago
This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
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Philip Marlowe: The Rise & Fall of The Private Detective
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When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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Eating At The Montreal Restaurant ‘Famous for Its Little Pig’ – 1938-1972
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a...
4 months ago
For nearly four decades from 1938, Jean-Paul Cuerrier (1918-1997) took pictures of diners feeding a pig at the table at Au Lutin Qui Bouffe restaurant in Montreal, Canada. Patrons would take home the photo as a souvenir. The typical posse was for one diner to feed the piglet milk...
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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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The Story of Atlas and His Eternal Burden: The God Who Holds the World
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Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
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Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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What is Neoliberalism? David Harvey’s Philosophy
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
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And what happens when we don’t?
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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And the centre's not looking too good, either.
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10 South American Artists You Should Know
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How Did Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Capture a Nation?
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The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific...
4 months ago
In 1972, Philip Flip Collier was in Boston. Philip, who has previously shared his terrific photographs of 1970s NYC, enrolled at the city’s New England School of Photography where he studied for the next two years with the hope of becoming a commercial photographer, but I could...
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The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Stained Glass Sold At Sotheby’s is Stolen From Notre Dame?
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Wed, 05/22/2024 - 09:47
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Ireland and Palestine: United by Partition?
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Can You ‘Believe In The Science’?
The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
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The Pre-Socratic Atomists: Pioneers of Modern Science
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate”
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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How Were the Twelve Tribes of Israel Formed?
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When Was the First Crusade?
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Carl Jung’s Theory of Archetypes: Major Archetypes, History, Criticism
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Joe And Petunia: Stars of British Pubic Information Films (1968-1973)
As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most...
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As with most British public information films (PIF) of the 1960s and 70s, the protagonists most likely die in the end. In the final instalment of the four-strong Joe and Petunia series, the British couple illustrate the dangers driving on bad tyres by driving into a tree. ...
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Featuring Stephen Fry!
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
a year ago
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
Dreams of Space -...
The Great Experience (1963)
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
a year ago
I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen. I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique.
Another of my essays in French.
a month ago
Another of my essays in French.
Classical Wisdom
Ode to a Grecian Tour
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What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It?
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Line in the Sand: 5 Defenders of the Alamo
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Another Of My Essays In French
And some odds and ends.
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Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Secret Renaissance Passageway Reopens in Florence
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What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance
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What is Love? And From Where did it Come?
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
10 months ago
All the ways to say LOVE, according to the Greeks
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“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC
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What Were Aristotle’s Contributions to Biology?
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3 Beautiful Places in the South of England Tourists Neglect
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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What Is Absolute Idealism According to Hegel?
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The Psychology of Drawing: What Is the HTP Test?
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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How the Nazis Rescued Benito Mussolini: The Gran Sasso Raid
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Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Silver Shields: Alexander the Great’s Legendary Elite Troops
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Who Won the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
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Évora: History & 10 Must-See Sites
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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7 Important Members of the Black Panthers You Need to Know
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Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece
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Why Was Prohibition Repealed?
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Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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Native Americans in the Revolutionary War: Who Did They Side With?
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What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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How the CCP is Closing China
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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What Was the Berlin Conference?
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
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Why Is Joan of Arc a Feminist Icon in Modern Times?
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The Statue of Liberty: 9 Facts about the New York City Monument
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The Paradox of Fiction: Is it Irrational to be Moved by Fiction?
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Juan Rulfo: Whispers & Myths From Mexico’s Most Enigmatic Writer
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A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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First Nations of the Canadian Plateau: A Brief History
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
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Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
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4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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The British Museum to Tighten Security and Collection Records
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
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a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Dr Alun Withey
Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
over a year ago
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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Who Was the Fifth Beatle?
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What Is the History and Significance of Diwali?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
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Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible?
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How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought?
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What Is Samsara in Hinduism?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy...
a year ago
This week, we’re going to take a look at a different aspect of ancient infantry tactics: how heavy infantry shield formations work. While I’ve framed this around ‘shield walls,’ not every kind of shielded heavy infantry fought that way and in practice the line between what is a...
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Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
7 months ago
The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
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What’s the Meaning of Life for Confucianism?
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7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
2 weeks ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Who Was Christian Schad? 11 Facts About the German Artist
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The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions
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African History...
Roads and wheeled transport in African history.
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
a year ago
Why the kingdoms of Kush and Dahomey used wheels while Asante did not.
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