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Not a Thucydidean 'Prose Chronicler' Ancient anecdotes and asides of varying length, differing subject and broad time-period
Joined September 2022
Odoacer's reign in Italy is enlightened by a document signed by the man himself... https://t.co/JH2ue48gIv
@RaoulMcLaughlin @rogueclassicist
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Flavius Odoacer is most famous as the man who deposed the ‘last’ western emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, becoming the first non-Roman ruler of Italy for centuries. He did technically act as a...
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ASAS54 - An Athenian general returns from exile for one last hurrah... https://t.co/0m9SO1eCwR
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Episode 54 - An Athenian general returns from exile for one last hurrah... https://mncvgk.podbean.com/e/a-soldier-and-a-scholar-54-a-sunset-with-honorA (hopefully) fun and accessible portal into...
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There was not just one statelet looking to upset the religious divide during the Second Islamic Fitna... https://t.co/YfkSI9bytv
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The doctrinal divide that sealed the fate of Qatari’s burgeoning Azariqa statelet in Kirman was not the first instance of such internal strife. When al-Azraq was driven out of Basra by the Zubayrids,...
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Studying the wrong Caesar gets high school seniors out of a history exam
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Panicked high schoolers were cramming about Julius Caesar's exploits as a Roman general and statesman after the error was discovered.
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This is older than Rome by over 600 years. It predates the Trojan War and the writing of the Iliad by several centuries. It was crafted nearly a millennium before the Parthenon in Athens. But that's just to put it into perspective. The really incredible thing is that
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Within 50 years, the Islamic caliphate was rent into several parts and during the Second Fitna, there was almost a major reordering of the sectarian divide... https://t.co/tzlHP8iwiN
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Most of the focus on the Second Fitna – the second civil war that engulfed the Arab caliphate upon the accession of Yazid I, son of Mu’awiyah I, in April 680 and lasted until late 692 – usually falls...
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Were the Persians so desperate to have a king that they crowned a child before he was born?!? https://t.co/KoiL7PcnRS
@RaoulMcLaughlin @rogueclassicist
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History is littered with instances of power being thrust upon children of a young age. Ivan the Terrible became Grand Prince of Moscow aged 3; Puyi, the last emperor of China, ascended at just 2...
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In regular thoughts about the Roman Empire, what reason(s) do you come up with for its decline and fall? Is that list as long as... 210?!? https://t.co/dMvL0D7Dlh
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Look at a map of the Roman Empire in 420 and you might be forgiven for thinking that talk of a decline was a little overblown. In terms of outline, the empire does not look all that different from...
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Is Diocletian's removing himself to his palace in 305 the first instance of extended gardening leave?
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Medieval scribes were not immune to massive mistakes... https://t.co/NLkGEw7mYD
@RaoulMcLaughlin @rogueclassicist
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We all make mistooks when writing. I made one in teh first sentence of this blog. And the second… (and my word processor informs me that the third is a fragment that I should consider revising…)"To...
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It did not take very long for there to be a heresy in the Christian Church... https://t.co/E6WEJLcWpL
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Throughout its history, the Christian Church has had to deal with its own ever-developing understanding of aspects of its own faith as various thinkers raised questions that had yet to be answered....
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