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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:31:48 +0200</pubDate>
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	<ttl>60</ttl>
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		<title>A rogue state unbound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The far right’s ascent has transformed the United States into an openly hostile power—threatening allies, invading neighbors, and abandoning any pretense of international law. The damage will be severe, but it need not be permanent.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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		<title>The Heavenly Antinous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How Antinous, the lover of the Emperor Hadrian, rose up as a constellation of stars after his drowning and how a series of misconceptions and silent omissions have since caused his stars to set.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/heavenly-antinous-lost-constellation-almagest/</link>
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		<title>The Lycian hoplite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historians have traditionally placed the Greek hoplite on a high pedestal, serving as a symbol of the Western values of honour and bravery that contrast greatly with those of the “cowardly East”. But how uniquely “Greek” really was the hoplite in the ancient Mediterranean?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/lycian-hoplite-fact-fiction/</link>
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		<title>“Heroic” Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity (2022)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rosanna Lauriola’s Brill’s Companion to Episodes of “Heroic” Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception (2022) focuses on sexual violence in the ancient world, drawing attention to the fact that many ancient “love stories” are, in fact, stories that focus on rape.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/reviews/heroic-rape-abduction-classical-antiquity-2022-book-rosanna-lauriola/</link>
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		<title>Our new nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the world turns ever bleaker, it’s important to figure out how we got here and, more importantly, how we get the hell out of here. And that does not involve getting on a spaceship and flying off to Mars.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/our-new-nightmare-2025/</link>
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		<title>Vedi Napoli e poi… enjoy it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the summer just ahead, Arianna Sacco highlights a few of the many cultural sights that are worth seeing in the Italian city of her birth, Naples.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/vedi-napoli/</link>
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		<title>Rome’s Empire (2023)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Southern’s Rome’s Empire (2023), published by Amberley, may not be exactly what was advertised or expected, it offers a suitable overview text of the history of the Roman Empire, with an emphasis on its military actions.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/reviews/romes-empire-2023-review/</link>
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		<title>Nicopolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the summer of 2023, the author spent several weeks excavating a Roman city in Northern Greece. This article examines the city’s effect on the landscape of the area from inception to abandonment.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/nicopolis/</link>
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		<title>Total War: Pharaoh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is still joy to be found in some of the recent entries in the Total War series of games. The most recent one, Pharaoh, suffers from some issues, but still offers an entertaining romp through the Late Bronze Age.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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		<title>Hittite warriors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To coincide with the release of Total War: Pharaoh, the latest strategy game developed by Creative Assembly, I wrote the script for this video produced by Invicta History about the Hittites.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
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		<title>Fatality!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today sees the release of Mortal Kombat 1, the latest instalment in a fighting game series noteworthy for its violence and gore. But excessive violence is nothing new: after all, Homer’s battle-epic, the Iliad, is drenched in blood.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/fatality-brutal-violence-homers-iliad/</link>
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		<title>Rules of the Trojan War?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea that early Greek warfare was somehow bound by a strict set of rules persists despite a clear lack of evidence. A rare example can be found in Homer’s Iliad. However, since this is clearly a work of fiction, we cannot take this testimony at face value.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/rules-trojan-war-heralds-nightfall/</link>
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		<title>Ancient World Magazine lives!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year after it was shut down, Ancient World Magazine has been revived. Updates may be few and far between, but we intend to rebuild and hopefully find people interested in offering financial support.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/ancient-world-magazine-lives/</link>
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		<title>Matriarchy and madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The publication of Joan Cichon’s Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete has led to a bad take on the subject by an evolutionary biologist that I feel should be called out for how offensive it is.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/matriarchy-madness/</link>
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		<title>Old World (2021)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developed by Mohawk Games, Old World bolts a character system onto a turn-based strategy game ostensibly set in the ancient world. The overly complex end result is a mess; its representation of the ancient world is deeply flawed.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/reviews/old-world-2021/</link>
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		<title>“A Lady of York”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A high-status grave from Late-Roman York is better known as the “Ivory Bangle Lady”. Analyses of her remains and her grave goods have helped us to understand her biography. In this article, Adam Parker explores what we understand of her life of wealth and migration to Roman Britain.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/lady-york/</link>
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		<title>Africans in Bronze Age Crete?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small fragments of a fresco from Knossos were reconstructed by Arthur Evans as depicting an African warrior preceded by a figure with lighter skin designated the “Captain of the Blacks”. The reconstruction and the designation are, of course, not without their problems.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/captain-blacks-fresco/</link>
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		<title>Vindobona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In building their empire, the Romans preferred borders that were relatively easy to defend, such as rivers. Next to the Danube, they founded a fort called Vindobona on the site of the later city of Vienna.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/vindobona-vienna/</link>
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		<title>Chariots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this episode of the Ancient World Magazine podcast, Dr Josho Brouwers is joined by contributing editor Dr Joshua Hall, regular contributor Dr Arianna Sacco, and special guest Dr Silvannen Gerrard to talk about chariots, from the Bronze Age down to the Roman era.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/podcast/chariots/</link>
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		<title>The vastness of Rome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Romans, without modern modes of transport, the world must have felt like a much larger place. For many, however, this was no impediment to setting out.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
		<link>https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/vastness-rome/</link>
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