In Praise of Antiquity’s Grande Dames Daisy Dunn’s new book argues that the great female poets, heroines, and martyrs of the ancient world tied history together with a ‘missing thread.’ Joan Smith 6 Feb 2025 · 19 min read
‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’ In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile. Joan Smith 12 Dec 2024 · 16 min read
King of the Goths In the third instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ podcaster Herbert Bushman describes the rise of Alaric I, whose Gothic armies roamed Greece and the Balkans before marching on Rome itself. Herbert Bushman 2 Oct 2023 · 20 min read
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire—A Review The city of Rome likely had a population of over a million by the time the Emperor Augustus died (August 19th, AD 14). Jaspreet Singh Boparai 11 Apr 2020 · 17 min read
