Phrases like “crossing the Rubicon,” “meeting Waterloo,” or “biting the bullet” contain historical stories in a nutshell. Battles, military…
On the Ides of March, 15 March 44 BCE, Julius Caesar attended a meeting of the Senate at the…
The Bronze Age collapse is one of history’s biggest “it looked stable—until it didn’t” moments. Between 1200 and 1100…
The Trojan War is the most famous war story- but was it myth, memory, or history? Homer’s epic poems…
Cleopatra VII was more than a romantic myth. She was also a ruler who made desperate efforts to save…
Hammurabi’s Code- inscribed on a stone monument that helped create a certain idea of law: not as a private…
Greek secret societies are a perennial source of fascination because they promise to show us a side of Greece…
The fall of Rome didn’t happen in a day. There was a year. Then five years. A decade of…
Popular conceptions of ancient Greece are still influenced by Spartan myths of austere supermen governed only by martial necessity….
From Greece to China, from Rome to Persia, empires relied on a few thousand elite troops to fight and…
