Warfare

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Fatality!

Fatality!

Brutal violence in Homer’s Iliad

7 min read

Rules of the Trojan War?

Rules of the Trojan War?

Heralds interceding at nightfall

6 min read

Africans in Bronze Age Crete?

Africans in Bronze Age Crete?

The “Captain of the Blacks” fresco from Knossos

7 min read

Chariots

Chariots

Podcast podcast #14

19 January 2022

Sacrifice before battle

Sacrifice before battle

An ancient Greek ritual

3 min read

Body-armour of glued linen?

Body-armour of glued linen?

The origin of the idea of glued linen armour

6 min read

Incompetent or scapegoat?

Incompetent or scapegoat?

Publius Quinctilius Varus and the AD 9 “Varus Disaster”

11 min read

Assassin’s Creed: Origins

Assassin’s Creed: Origins

Exploring Ptolemaic Egypt

13 min read

In it for the booty?

In it for the booty?

A Geometric battle scene from Athens

9 min read

A survey of Mycenaean warfare

A survey of Mycenaean warfare

Evidence from the Late Bronze Age Aegean

27 min read

Soldiers and Silver

Soldiers and Silver

A review of a book by Michael J. Taylor

11 min read

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

A peacetime epic, or a critique of the values of the Heroic Age?

24 min read