Tag: Antiquity

Any events previous to AD 476 (Fall of the Western Roman Empire)

Peril at Every Turn: Travel Before the Modern Era

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Treading the (Ship)boards: Lincoln Paine’s The Sea & Civilization

Who Needs Maps? Adventuring in the (Digital) Ancient World

Falling and Failing: Edward Watts’ The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

Seized by the Undertow: Barry Cunliffe’s Europe Between the Oceans

Missing Ingredients: Historical Elision and the Assassins’ Creed Franchise

The modern remains of the famous Parthenon, a temple to Athens' patron goddess built with the proceeds of its defensive league-turned-empire.

Gaining our Bearings: Historical Scale & Its Implications

HANDOUT - Enslaved workers working for Confederate forces during Civil War.(Courtesy of “The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News”: A Joint Project by Sandra J. Still, Emily E. Katt, Collection Management, and the Beck Center of Emory University)

Spotight on the Steppe: Barry Cunliffe’s The Scythians

Alpha to Omega: Roderick Beaton’s The Greeks