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Imperium Sine Fine and Good Night

katemoseley wrote 1 month ago: Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome Anthony Everitt “Not suffering fools gladly is insufferable to … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, History, Biography, Anthony Everitt

The idea of provincia - then and now1 comment

^.^ wrote 4 months ago: I was reading The Ancient Mediterranean World: From the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (Oxford 2004), and cam … more →

Tags: Jews, Polybius, Rome, Carthage, Punic Wars, achaea, Greeks, Romans

Clusterfuck 5th Century B.C. Greece: Keggers and Treachery in the Peloponnesus Part 1.1 comment

truebe wrote 4 months ago: The year is 415 B.C, and Greek General, politician and statesmen, Alcibiades was standing on the doc … more →

Tags: Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades, ancient, ATHENS, Classics, Greece, History, Sparta, Treason

Of Men and Muses

Tom Verenna wrote 5 months ago: Well Book 1 is here!  It’s not my monograph, however.  Two more yet to go this year! … more →

Tags: ancient Israel, Ancient Literature, Ancient Near East, Belief, Early Christianity, Genre, Ghosts, Hebrew Bible, imitatio

Richard Carrier's New Book

Tom Verenna wrote 9 months ago: Richard Carrier recently published a new book! (No, it is not his Jesus book–he is still worki … more →

Tags: New Testament, Early Christianity

An Amusing Graffito5 comments

Tom Verenna wrote 9 months ago: Pompeii and Herculaneum provide some 11,000 inscriptions for scholars to study, most of them bring i … more →

Tags: Humor

I Am All I've Done10 comments

Steph wrote 10 months ago: I sit before the living room picture window, outside which falls Christmas snow; heavy, completely v … more →

Tags: Self-Improvement, Passion, Courage, Remember, Heroes, Heroines, medieval times, I am all I've done, Actions

Richard Carrier on 'How Not to Argue the Mythicist Position'

Tom Verenna wrote 10 months ago: This is quite a good explanation for the differences between actual, serious scholars who accept the … more →

Tags: Jesus, Scholarship

Gossip from Pompeii: A Brief Excursus3 comments

Tom Verenna wrote 11 months ago: I know I have not written anything in a while, partly because I have been so busy with working on a … more →

Tags: Humor

Jason and the Argonauts - Skeleton Fight

Tom Verenna wrote 11 months ago: This is one of my favorite scenes from any 1960’s movie dealing with mythology.  The scene her … more →

Tags: Ancient Literature, Humor

Believe in Zeus? Athena? You're not alone.

Tom Verenna wrote 12 months ago: Over the past eight years or so, Greek religious activists have been claiming persecution–and … more →

Tags: Belief

Jew and Greek Then and Now

Tom Verenna wrote 1 year ago: Jew and Greek Then and Now By Thomas Verenna The book I am currently working on, even though dealing … more →

Tags: ancient Israel, Philosophy

Leonardo: L’uomo universale (III)

oudeis23 wrote 1 year ago: « Dell’imitazione » L’imitazione delle cose antiche è più lodevole che quella delle moderne. “On Imi … more →

Tags: Linguistics, Leonardo: L'uomo universale, Italian, Latin, History, Rome, Leonardo, da, Vinci


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