
Narcissists and sociopaths make bad teachers
What Euripides tells us about teaching
Euripides’ play Iphigenia at Aulis contains valuable lessons that can serve as a source of inspiration in the modern world. For teachers in particular, empathy, as highlighted in the play, is of vital importance.

Blood, bronze, and balony
An Extra Credits video about battles in the Bronze Age
With the recent release of the strategy game A Total War Saga: Troy, there has been a flood of videos about the Trojan War. Sadly, many of them are not very good. The recent video by Extra Credits on “Battles in the Bronze Age” is an example.

A god in three dimensions
The debate about identification is front and centre of discussions about the Artemision god. But is there anything more to say about this statue than “Zeus or Poseidon”?

Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean
A new Companion published by Brill
This book, based on a workshop on fortifications and sieges, features a collection of papers that deal with siegecraft among the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West
A book from 2003 by Guy Halsall
People studying the first half of antiquity, with free cities and omens and cuneiform, don’t always pay attention to the very end, with kingdoms and Christians and clumsy Latin. But the people studying the end of antiquity have some exciting stories to tell, and they face some of the same problems as people studying Early Greece.

Sculpture in the ancient Greek world, part 2
Joshua Hall, Matthew Lloyd, and Josho Brouwers continue to talk about sculptures in the ancient Greek world. In this second part, we focus on sculpture from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Sculpture in the ancient Greek world, part 1
Joshua Hall, Matthew Lloyd, and Josho Brouwers sit down to talk about sculptures in the ancient Greek world. In this first part, we deal with sculpture from the pre-Classical periods.

Why abandon the phalanx?
Problems from Rome
Did the hilly terrain of Italy force the Romans to abandon the hoplite phalanx? Did they even use the phalanx to begin with? In this article, we suggest “no” to both of those questions.

Sanctuaries in ancient Greece
The regular team consisting of Joshua Hall, Matthew Lloyd, and Josho Brouwers talk about sanctuaries and other sacred places in ancient Greece.

The culture of ancient scholarship
A book review
The scholastic lifestyle is not a development of the modern world. It was a characteristic of the ancient world, and deserving of a detailed look. This article reviews a new book that studies how scholars operated in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.