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A few new releases for the historian on your shopping list!
New Releases: Ancient Books for the Holiday Season!

A few new releases for the historian on your shopping list!

It's flu season! Are you feeling under the weather? Definitely don't do what this quiz tells you to. But if you're curious about how a doctor in ancient Greece would treat your symptoms, go no further
How Would An Ancient Greek Doctor Treat Your Symptoms?

It’s flu season! Are you feeling under the weather? Definitely don’t do what this quiz tells you to. But if you’re curious about how a doctor in ancient Greece would treat your symptoms, go no further

The British Museum’s Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs launched a little over two weeks ago and received resounding critical acclaim. Curator Elizabeth O’Connell discussed some of the important themes and pieces selected for the exhibit in her recent talk, Curator’s Introduction to Egypt: Faith and the Pharaohs.
A Curator’s View: Egypt – Faith After the Pharaohs

The British Museum’s Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs launched a little over two weeks ago and received resounding critical acclaim. Curator Elizabeth O’Connell discussed some of the important themes and pieces selected for the exhibit in her recent talk, Curator’s Introduction to Egypt: Faith and the Pharaohs.

The British Museum’s latest exhibit, Faith After the Pharaohs, presents an intimate look at how religion, policy and daily practice intermingled and survived in post-pharaonic Egypt.
Another Side of Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs at the British Museum

The British Museum’s latest exhibit, Faith After the Pharaohs, presents an intimate look at how religion, policy and daily practice intermingled and survived in post-pharaonic Egypt.

A quiz about ancient and less than ancient wonders...
How Well Do You Know The Wonders Of The World?

A quiz about ancient and less than ancient wonders…

Let's see if it's really all Greek to you!
How Much Do You Really Know About Greek Mythology?

Let’s see if it’s really all Greek to you!

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A few new releases for the historian on your shopping list! 0November 27, 2015

New Releases: Ancient Books for the Holiday Season!

Barry Strauss talks about his new book The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination.0November 2, 2015

The Death of Caesar: New Light on History’s Most Famous Assassination

There has been an increased interest in Romeʼs connections with the Far East over the course of the last 20 years. This has resulted in the publication of many articles and monographs about the Roman involvement in the Red Sea which was the key maritime region linking the Far East with the West. 0November 1, 2015

Persians, Ports, and Pepper: The Red Sea Trade in Late Antiquity

Ancient Greek medicine was a complex practice perceived as something between myth and reality, as an expression of a magical divinatory, and an empirical technical practice.0October 31, 2015

The Origin and Causes of Schizophrenia and Madness in Greek Culture

This article examines the origins of the idea of Roman world rule and the foundation myths of the Capitoline temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus0October 26, 2015

Capitoline Jupiter and the Historiography of Roman World Rule

It explores how Thucydides reveals the human causes of war through the outbreak of a particular war, the Peloponnesian war.0October 25, 2015

Thucydides on the Outbreak of War

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