How Did The Romans Defeat The Greeks? – Metatron
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An Odyssey Reader: Selections from Homer’s Odyssey, Books 1-12
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Books about Thucydides
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The election of Barack Obama: The Homeric version
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The election of Barack Obama: The Homeric version
I’d forgotten this gem from Iowahawk.
The Roman empire (maps)
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Cicero on the right to self-defense
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“There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The use of elephants in ancient Greek warfare
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History’s most vicious pirates: The Sea Peoples
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More on the Antikythera mechanism
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Reading the Aeneid on Christmas
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General Mattis Crosses Potomac With 100,000 Troops; President, Senate Flee City
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Little bit of Roman history humor here:
General Mattis Crosses Potomac With 100,000 Troops; President, Senate Flee City
“The President has not been seen since early yesterday morning, but sources inside the State Department confirm that he is on a scheduled goodwill trip to Egypt, which was kept from the press for safety reasons.”
The die has been cast.
(Egypt!!!)
H/t: Instapundit
Julius Caesar, as portrayed by Ciaran Hinds in Rome (HBO). From The Daily Mail
Ancient Greek field hockey
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Is there anything the ancient Greeks didn’t do?
Ancient Greeks playing field hockey, from HellenistEukontos.blogspot.ca
Excellent discussion of Xenophon’s Anabasis
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Excellent discussion of Xenophon’s Anabasis at ChicagoBoyz.net
Just finished reading up to the blog post, Xenophon Roundtable: The Shadow of Herodotus
UPDATE: Finished reading down to Xenophon Roundtable: List of Contributors. That’s it for tonight.
Hope to finish the rest of them when I have time later.
Xenophon bust, from Armenian-History.com