Well, I’ve been thinking about this format for a while. So I hope you enjoyed the episode. Please rate/review if you can. The episode. My guest. You can find Helen’s on her website H.M. Classics Academy or on twitter (@ClassicsAcademy). If you fancy giving this a go then feel free to contact me (email on …
Fantasy Dinner Guests with Helen McVeigh – episode notes. Read More »
Each year I try and carve a pumpkin with a design from antiquity. In fairness it’s been all Greek designs so for. This is mainly due to Greek vase designs being very suitable for a pumpkin, for a starter it’s a curved surface. One thing I’ve learned since doing these is how much that curved …
Happy Halloween! I hope you enjoyed the episode, it was a chance to cover a slightly different area from Greece and Rome. I referred to a few scholars in the episode and you can find their work in the reading list/bibliography. To start with thanks to ‘By the Fire’ podcast. You can find the podcast …
If you haven’t listened to the episode then you can listen below (or find on the platform you use. As I mentioned in the podcast you can find me on twitter (@ancientblogger) and now my podcast has its own twitter profile as well – @HoundAncient. Still on TikTok btw and putting out ancient history content …
For many of a certain age the myth of the Golden Fleece invokes a bunch of skeletons fighting soldiers (I’m talking about the 1963 film Jason and the Golden Fleece). The fleece-stealing part of the film didn’t register as much as as result of these bony warriors and a host of other Ray Harryhausen monsters. …
Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum) was an important Roman site, initially a fort settled shortly after the Roman invasion of Britain. It was linked to London by a 57 mile road and part of its course survives today. It later came to be known as Stane Street, though the part I walked goes by the name of …
In the 1st Punic War Rome took the fight to Carthage literally and landed a force under the general Regulus in North Africa. Regulus defeated a Carthaginian force at Aspis (255 BCE) and then besieged the city of Adys. This caused panic at Carthage. What were they to do? Well, the policy of recruiting mercenaries …
As you may be aware – I’m on TikTok and here’s a recent video I did about the helmet (and shared on my YouTube channel).
This is my final episode in the Theban trilogy, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did researching and recording it. Here’s the episode: I referenced the Sacrifice in Antiquity podcast in the episode. Here’s Part Two where I pick up the grisly goings on in Greece and Rome. Casting Through Ancient Greece. …
Thebes: Apex and Despair. Podcast episode notes. Read More »
As you might know I’ve started on TikTok and recently created a series of videos on the hoplite shield. I uploaded them as a single video on my Youtube channel and so here it is. Thanks to Paul Bardunias, very interesting on all aspects of the hoplite. Worth searching!
