Posts tagged as #history

Modern preconceptions of ancient warfare place significant emphasis on the virtues of youth. This is a clear misconception however…

It is often in unexpected places that we find references to classical antiquity. Today, while catching up on another favourite past time…

One of my all time favourite comics (and now television show by AMC) is The Walking Dead. The show depicts a post apocalyptic world filled…

The AIRC Unlisted Conference recently featured a video on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in Digital Archaeology . This naturally…

While many modern people might consider ourselves figuratively slaves to debt, it was literally the case in early Rome. Citizens unable to…

There have been many famous secessions in Ancient Rome (the multiple secessions of the plebeians immediately springs to mind). However…

The career of Lucius Cornelius Sulla remains an enigma on the political landscape of the Roman Republic. An aristocrat that achieved the…

For the ancient Romans, there was a clear distinction between practices that could be defined as religious and those that were a…

As a follow on from our previous post on the Punishments in the Roman Army is an examination of the rewards and commendations on offer…

In the second century BC, the Roman aristocracy promoted a value system that emphasised the customs, traditions and reverence of ancestors…

Eighteen years after the battle of Actium decisively brought the civil wars to a foregone conclusion, the Roman Senate consecrated an altar…

Idioms are a collection of words whom’s meaning is not easily discernible from them individually. Only through usage and context are they…

In the classical period (800 BC – AD 500), suicide held a different connotation than it does today. It was only at the Council of Arles in…

A lecturer of Ancient History at Macquarie University once mentioned that the Romans could teach us a thing or two about bureaucracy. I’ve…

In the first episode of HBO’s acclaimed series Rome, we were lucky enough to see a form of punishment used within the Roman Army. Lucius…

Epitaphs from Ancient Rome and Greece provide an abundance of primary source material. It was the Roman orator Cicero who claimed the life…

In our previous post discussing the intentions of the Roman proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus when he proclaimed the Freedom of the…

At the Isthmian Games in 196 B.C., the Roman proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus proclaimed the ‘Freedom of the Greeks’ as the outcome of…