The Life of Antoninus Pius

This month, the History Channel's web site carried an article entitled "7 Things You May Not Know About Caligula" . Clearly,...

Sometimes the venerable BBC, usually considered the Queen of Journalism, gives a rather skewed -- not to say plain unbalanced -- view of arc...

A few weeks ago, Italy's Corriere Della Serra newspaper carried a report entitled "From Etruria to the Middle Ages". It claim...

In what version of reality can death by lightning-strike be judged so-so, pretty ordinary, 14 out of 84?! I recently came across a listing o...

May is wearing on, so it must be time for another blog post. And, just in time, my trusty news hound tracked down an interesting story from...

It is Easter again, and it has become a blogging tradition (observed here , and here , and here , and here ) to select an Easter theme. It h...

It has been a while since we looked in on the Roman Scotland web site (last visited in 2010 ). I'm afraid that, in the intervening eigh...

With only a day remaining to organize February's post, a gift from the Gods landed on my lap. The (usually excellent) History of the Anc...

Readers may have noticed that I devoted January's postings to reviewing the eccentric theory (I use the adjective advisedly -- Merriam-W...

Running arguments can be tedious. Back and forth they go, each observation met with a rebuttal, each argument with a counter-argument. But i...