Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part VII: Hanging by a Thread
This is the seventh part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter Jackson’s 2002...
View ArticleFireside Friday, March 3, 2023
Hey, folks, fireside this week! As this is going up, I am preparing to appear digitally on a panel on "History and the Public, Now and in the Future" at the University of Maryland. March may end up...
View ArticleCollections: How to Polis 101, Part IIc: The Courts
This is the third part of the second part of our three(ish) part look at the governing structures of the Greek polis (I, IIa, IIb, IIc, III). At some point I promise I will write a series whose...
View ArticleCollections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit... This week we're taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician...
View ArticleCollections: The Mediterranean Iron Omni-Spear
This week, on a bit of a lark, we're going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective...
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