I hope you enjoyed the episode on Magna Graecia, as promised here is some more content (including the sources I used/ further reading) and the transcription. In case you are interested here’s the link for the museum at Pithekoussai – it’s got some great information. Perhaps one day I’ll get to visit. There is also …
It can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking pottery from antiquity as distant to ourselves in the modern day. Savage tales of heroism, brash nudity and a plethora of deities deipicted on them only serve to remind how different the ancient Greeks were. But finds can sometimes do the opposite, namely to …
The eclipse as a dating device. The experience of studying ancient history at any level is to deal with dates as amorphous and ranging. Even where we can assign a year to an event the idea that you can whittle this down to a specific date and, shock horror, an hour makes the hairs on …
A trip to the British Museum. In May I took the day off and journeyed up to the British Museum. I had planned on doing this anyhow, but the Feminine Power exhibition was on and so I thought I’d check it out. Here are some of the artefacts with notes. For my recent trip to …
Types of camel. It was Aristotle, in his work The History of Animals, who noted that there were two types of camels. The Bactrian, who had two humps, and the dromedary who was afforded a single hump[1]. Though he may not have been the first to make this classification (as I will come to) he …
If you’ve listened to the latest Ancient History Hound podcast on ghosts then you’ll have heard me mention that I’d post some bits from the episode which I mentioned. These sources I read and mentioned, maps, links, pictures and podcasts (including the one on ghosts). Maps. I referred to both Mesopotamia and Assur in the …
Night of the Livy Dead 3: Ghosts – episode notes. Read More »
It’s that time of the year when I have to get creative and try to work out which Greek vase image I am going to attempt to replicate on a pumpkin. I’ve included some of the images below as well as a couple of my YouTube vlogs. There’s even a list of my Night of …
For those of you who have followed me on twitter you may have noticed that around early October my feeds hums with the various designs I challenge myself with. You see, pumpkins are near perfect in terms of recreating images from Greek vases. They don’t offer a flat surface which I think often renders an …
Ever wonder what this would sound like? Check out this YouTube video.
Recently I have been expanding my collection of ancient history themed t-shirts and I thought I’d post about where I bought them from. It’s great to support the artists behind these, so get your history nerd on and in the words of Ru Plato “start serving ancient history realness”. Please note that all the t-shirts were …
