I was a guest on Podcasting Amplified where I spoke about my podcast and the challenges. It’s more about the process of creating an episode for Ancient History Hound but I hope you’ll find it interesting. You can listen to it on Spotify or watch me in person below on the YouTube channel.
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Legio II Augusta is a roman reenactment group who I have joined up with recently. You may recall our display at Chichester which was great fun. Well this time it was on a bigger scale at the South Of England Showground for an event called Battles Through History. As you can see there were a
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Firstly a big thanks to Dr Peta Greenfield from The Partial Historians, it’s a great podcast and I guested on it to talk about the landscape of early Rome. Go check it out and have a listen as it covers so much about ancient Rome which you don’t find elsewhere. Also don’t forget their book
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The foundation of Rome is an iconic myth. It’s a story of twins who survive against the odds, who fall out and ends with one of them founding a city and the other dead. Or at least that’s the most known version of the city’s foundation. However, it was by no means the only one
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It was around this date in AD 9 when a Roman force left its summer camp and headed back west to cross the Rhine and to its winter camp. On the way the general in command, Varus, was convinced into making a detour to stabilise the region by an individual called Arminius. The new route
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This episode had links with Sicily, so be sure to check out my miniseries on Ancient History (as well as the Foundation of Rome episode). There is also an article on coins from Sicily, the main Phoenician settlement there (Motya) and some evidence of whales in the Mediterranean found on Sicily. On the subject of
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I have been creating content about Pompeii (and Herculaneum) for a good while so I thought I would have a page with all the links to articles, videos and podcast episodes. Have a scroll and get reading, listening or watching about Pompeii! Pompeii - articles. I have done a couple of articles on this blog
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Cruelty in ancient Rome took many forms, it’s something which has often caused me to question whether I’d really want to step into a tardis and travel back there. One individual, Vedius Pollio, was renowned for a viscious streak, something which was picked up by a few ancient writers including Seneca and Dio Cassius. An
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I hope you enjoyed the March episode and hope you find the below content useful! Here’s a link to the episode on Numa I have also done a specific article going about the Salii where you can see an example of the shield shape which I discussed. I also mentioned the Lupercalia and this has
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The month of March was a time where a number of interesting rituals and festivals took place. One of these was more a month long procession by the Salii. These were priests whose processions around the city was a more entertaining affair that you might expect. The Salii would pause at various points and perform
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