Star Wars music played using ancient Greek instruments
Ever wonder what this would sound like? Check out this YouTube video.
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Ever wonder what this would sound like? Check out this YouTube video.
Star Wars music played using ancient Greek instruments Read More »
Roman cinema before Hercules. The link between Italy and Hercules may not seem obvious. Yet there was a relationship between the two. The myth of Geryon’s cattle and the defeat of Cacus both involve Hercules in and around Rome, although it’s worth pointing out that Rome hadn’t yet been founded. Roll forward to 1951 and
Labouring the part. Hercules in cinema. Read More »
August 2nd 216 BC is traditionally the date for the Battle of Cannae. What better way to understand it better than via my vlog on it from a few years back with a lavish budget spent on a toy elephant? Well, apart from the reasons you have just thought of. Hope you enjoy!
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Recently I have been expanding my collection of ancient history themed t-shirts and I thought I’d post about where I bought them from. It’s great to support the artists behind these, so get your history nerd on and in the words of Ru Plato “start serving ancient history realness”. Please note that all the t-shirts were
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Classics and comics. Recently I stumbled upon a few unusual, if not downright quirky clashes of superheroes and antiquity. The more I thought about it the more I realised that this wasn’t really a far-fetched idea. After all – why should Hercules get all the attention? Batman. Batman’s earliest foray into antiquity (that I could
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Priapus, between a rockery and a hard place. In 1847 Sir Charles Isham journeyed back from Germany and returned with 21 smaller friends. These were small figures which themselves had evolved from what the Italians had called Gobbi. The garden gnome had arrived. It wasn’t until the 1930s that the term ‘gnome’ entered usage in England
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A friendly pig. The relationship between people and their pets isn’t a new thing. Perhaps though it took an unusual form in once instance found on a stele. It dates to the Hellenistic period, though possibly a Roman date may apply. In either case it’s not so much when as what it reveals. The stele
Third #VaseVlog2018 of the year and it’s the turn of the Francois Vase and in particular the depiction of a the Calydonian Boar hunt.
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The scene of a deity pursuing a mortal libinously is not exactly a rare event in antiquity. From vases to reliefs and even the backs of mirrors the love affairs of the Greek gods were an easy option for an artist to bake into life on a vase or tease out of marble. Normally the
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Medusa and Perseus. On my YouTube channel I look at a famous Greek vase which depicts Medusa being decapitated by Perseus (it’s currently in the British Museum). I hope you find it interesting. Let me know here or on my YouTube channel.
Perseus and Medusa by the Pan Painter. Read More »