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Load More...I love tv history shows, and I get things are reframed to gain a wider audience. But this pseudo history stuff needs to disappear. There are more interesting 'mysteries' that have the benefit of not being fake! #BadAncient
This is what many people get wrong about Atlantis. It wasn’t a Greek legend. It’s not found in stories or folk traditions. It’s the sole product of Plato’s philosophical dialogues. Plato regularly invented hypothetical examples to make a point. Atlantis was a thought experiment. https://t.co/UszodEAasQ
Category Archives: History on the Internet
PTSD in Ancient History … or, How to Disagree Amicably
Book being read: None at the moment, unless Thucydides counts, but I am always dipping into that so probably not! As regular readers and poor survivors of my obsessive monologues well know, I do a lot of work and research … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient History & My Research, History on the Internet, Tangents
Tagged ancient PTSD, Ancient Warfare, combat trauma, Owen Rees, PTSD, trauma
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How to get a history book deal
Book being read; B. Caven, Dionysius I: War-Lord of Sicily, (1990) In January last year (2013) I gave up full time work to become a stay at home Dad. At the same time my wife convinced me to go back … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient History & My Research, History on the Internet
Tagged Ancient Warfare, Blog, book writing, Historian, Internet, Owen Rees
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AMPAH 2011
I have just returned from the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates of Ancient History held this year at UCL. I was fortunate enough to chair two panels, one on Greek Warfare (a position I was not initially going to have but … Continue reading
Posted in Day-to-day, History on the Internet
Tagged AMPAH, Conference, Owen Rees, PhD, UCL
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Competition in Irony
Competition time! As some of you may know, I work at Shakespeare’s Globe to fund my PhD. In said Globe, there is a poster written by Bernard Levin called ‘Quoting Shakespeare’, all about the impact of Shakespeare on the English … Continue reading
Classics in modern political speech
Just a quick thought that arose when my attention was drawn to this rather embarrassing article/interview about ancient Democracy and why, in the academic’s opinion, places like Egypt don’t have one (basically) read here. Have a read of it, … Continue reading
Posted in History on the Internet, Tangents
Tagged Blog, Historian, Media, Owen Rees, UCL
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