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As you likely know, I love Dune . As a much younger person I read all the books that were then out, I still have a bunch of them, and...

I've been reading Polybius, 'The Histories' (or according to Penguin Classics, 'The Rise of the Roman Empire'). A second century BC Greek...

Recently I (re)watched s1 of HBO's Rome and mostly decided against writing about it. Then, for a few days at least, the online discourse...

When talking about ancient Greece it's easy to make generalizations. Most of our hard evidence from that era comes from Athens, home to...

In the third and second centuries BC the powers of the Mediterranean were the Roman Republic and Carthage in the west and the Hellenistic...

In case you couldn't tell, I've really been into ancient Greece lately. After hearing about it a couple times in other books, I decided...

I think most Americans know the broader definition of western civilization goes back through medieval Europe to Rome and, ultimately, to...

We spent our Thanksgiving down in Arizona. Much of my family is down there, including my parents, and we split our time between the 'East...

The book I'm reading now was given to me by a friend, and it's called Carnage and Culture. It looks at nine battles where 'western'...