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    Let us begin with a description of what this book is not. If you are looking for an account of what happened at the cult ceremonies at the famous temple of Artemis in Ephesos, you will not find it here – or anywhere. The ceremonies were called Mysteries for a reason. The rites of the Mysteries, were secret and never disclosed. Likewise if you are looking for a an accessible account of ancient religious ceremonies in general, these are not described here in any detail. Instead this book is thorough and meticulous examination of the relationship between rulers, cult and polis from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman era...

     

    ...continue to the full review of The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos by Guy MacLean Rogers

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    Interview with Nick Brown

    By Viggen, in News,

    Nick Brown is the British author of the Agent of Rome series. The fourth in the Agent of Rome series, The Black Stone, was released last summer. Hodder & Stoughton will publish two more in the series between 2015 and 2016. Also available are the ebook short stories Death This Day, The Eleventh Hour and The Flames of Cyzicus.
     
    UNRV Hello Nick, why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got interested in Roman history?
    Nick Brown : Hi, I’m a teacher by trade. I taught history and English for a decade before becoming a full-time writer. My degree is actually in modern history and it was only when I began to consider writing historical fiction that I focused on the Romans. I knew very little about the era and had to educate myself quickly – largely through reading a hell of a lot of textbooks....
     
    ....continue to the full interview with Nick Brown
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    Fancy a spot of entertainment? You might sit back on a sofa to watch television, perhaps a DVD, or maybe you throw caution to the winds and head toward the local cinema for the big screen experience. The latest 'sword & sandals' epic might be the one to watch.
     
    Drama, tragedy, slow motion action, and a glorious festival of special effects to drop your jaw as the battle sequence unfolds in deafening bloody violence. But hang on a minute - Was that really how they fought? Did they really use weapons like that? Was that what the well dressed ancient warrior actually wore?
     
    ...continue to the full review of Swords And Cinema by Jeremiah McCall
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    Stephen Mitchell, an Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy, provides an exceptionally clear and detailed account both of the march of events and of the structures of the Empire from the accession of the emperor Diocletian in AD 284 to the death of Heraclius in 641, using the latest scholarship to reveal the massive political and military transformations in Rome’s western and eastern empires that led to its decline and gave way to the emergence of medieval and modern Europe and the Islamic world.
     
    It is an excellent reference work containing everything necessary for understanding and initiating research into late antiquity, considering the sources for the period. It includes chronological tables, maps, and charts of important information help to orient the reader...
     
    ...continue to the full review of A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641 by Stephen Mitchel
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    Delphi was one of the Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries of ancient Greece. It was dedicated to the god Apollo and famous, from an early period onwards, for the Pythia or oracle, a priestess who gave prophesies supposedly transmitted to her directly from the god himself. The site possesses remains of a number of temples, treasuries, a stadium, and other structures. Delphi was considered the centre of the Classical world: visitors to the museum on the site will be able to see the omphalos, a large worked stone that represents the ‘navel’ of the world. Due to its importance, much has been written about Delphi. In the book under review, Michael Scott presents a narrative history of the site and the sanctuary...
     
    ...continue to the full review of Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott
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    In 2011, it was exactly 2500 years ago that the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) was fought. In this battle, the army of the Athenians defeated the larger army of the Persian Empire on the field near the village of Marathon. The battle plays an important part in the story of the wars between the Greeks and Persians of the first quarter of the fifth century BC. As a result, much has been written about it. In this article Ancient Warfare magazine editor Josho Brouwers reviews, as concisely as possible, five books that have appeared on the subject since 2011.
     
    These are: Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilization (2010) by Richard A. Billows, The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization (2011) by James Lacey, Marathon: The Battle and the Ancient Deme (2010) edited by Kostas Buraselis and Katerina Meidani, The Battle of Marathon (2010) by Peter Krentz, and The Battle of Marathon in Scholarship: Research, Theories and Controversies since 1850 (2014) by Dennis L. Fink...
     
    ....continue to the five reviews on the Battle of Marathon
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    The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The Aeneid can be divided into two halves based on the disparate subject matter of Books 1–6 (Aeneas's journey to Latium in Italy) and Books 7–12 (the war in Latium). These two halves are commonly regarded as reflecting Virgil's ambition to rival Homer by treating both the Odyssey's wandering theme and the Iliad's warfare themes
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    Henchmen of Ares by Josho Brouwers
     
    Book Review by Philip Matyszak
     
    The warrior-heroes of the Homeric epics and the Greek hoplites of the Persian wars were very different military types. Achilles at Troy had very little in common with Militades at Marathon, either in his social outlook or his military equipment and style of fighting. This book is essentially the story of how warfare in Greece evolved from Achilles to Militades over the seven hundred or so years between the fall of Troy (circa 1250 BC) and the rise of the Athenian empire (490 BC)...
     
    ...continue to the full review of Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece by Josho Brouwers
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    Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City by Michael Seymour
     
    Review by Alistair Forrest
     
    Archaeology uncovers layers of history in time and space. Seymour’s “excavation” has given us so many more layers, not just the physical and the cultural, but the very ideas of “Babylon” formed in the minds of the great, the good and the infamous in a timeline spanning four millennia...
     
    ...continue to the full review of Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City by Michael Seymour
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    Both the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of the successor ‘Barbarian Kingdoms’ have been the subject of much scholarly debate. However, this has tended to focus on the political events at the highest levels. A subject that has received far less attention is the reaction of the ‘Romans’ living in the new kingdoms to their loss of Roman status, and how their self-identities changed to meet the demands of a new world. ‘Post-Roman Traditions’ contains twelve papers, each dealing with the self-perception and fluidity of identity of individuals in a world where changing political boundaries and affiliations were the norm...
     
    continue to the full review of Post-Roman Transitions by Walter Pohl and Gerda Heydemann
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