The Legend of the Gargareans, the Anti-Amazons The Amazons are a well-known component of Greek mythology and there are many similar stories of all-women societies…
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From Hippolyta of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to Wonder Woman, people throughout history have been fascinated by the Amazons. There’s something very striking about…
A Winter Fable While a certain other story seems to get top billing around this time of year for some mysterious reason, I would like to…
The Battle of Thermopylae is a cornerstone of western culture, garnering mentions in films like The Last Samurai, video games like Halo: The Fall of…
In the first century CE, there were two social classes in which a gladiator might fall; the auctorati were free people who voluntarily became gladiators and…
Like most cultural touchstones of antiquity, Gladiatorial Games do not have a single clear point of origin. The most probable explanation for the phenomenon (in…
The more I research Roman Gladiators, the more certain I become that the film “Gladiator” might defeat Braveheart as the most historically inaccurate movie of…
Hail, Caesar? Julius Caesar is remembered by history as a brilliant politician, republic-killing tyrant, ruthless dictator, and benevolent engineer for social change depending on whether…