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Load More...As the #BadAncient site is seeing a surge of users, and my last call for contributors has seen some excellent article ideas come in, I thought I would let any new followers see what all the fuss is about:
I was approached by the team behind @AncientWorldMag to turn my #badancient into a website project. So here it is! https://t.co/RXLVqdnSbY
This is about examining modern public claims about the ancient world, and trying to untangle the history from them.Another corinthian-style looking helmet. The collection grows...
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Tag Archives: Historiography
Ancient PTSD Again, and again and again.
I think I should just give up and call this my Ancient PTSD blog! It is that time of year again when someone posts an idea which links modern PTSD with ancient experiences. However, there is a growing trend that … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient History & My Research
Tagged Ancient Warfare, combat trauma, Historian, Historiography, PTSD
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Why Study Military History At All?
Book being read; R. Waterfield, Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece Persia and the End of the Golden Age, (2006) I was listening to a podcast recently over on Life of Caesar, where they were interviewing the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine, Dr. … Continue reading
The different faces of History
Book being read: J. Marozzi, “Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World” (2005) Like many people, I have been watching a lot of the Olympics and what has struck me most is how one sport, or what I perceive … Continue reading
Doing the Impossible
Book being read: Valerio Manfredi, The Lost Army, (2009) – a fiction book, check me out! Ok, it is a fiction book by an archaeologist telling the story of Xenophon’s Anabasis and I intend to use it in my thesis, … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient History & My Research
Tagged Ancient Warfare, Blog, Historian, Historiography, Owen Rees, PhD, Popular History
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Dublin conference and why David Starkey is a bad historian.
Books being read: Apollonius, Argonautica/ L. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War/ J. Evans, Doglopaedia: A Complete Guide to Dog Care/ Sophocles, Ajax Having spent the weekend at a conference at University College Dublin called ‘Warfare in Antiquity: … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient History & My Research, Tangents
Tagged Ancient Warfare, Blog, Historian, Historiography, Owen Rees, PhD, UCL
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