For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...

The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman ...

KING OF PONTUS (208 pp.)—Alfred Duggan—Coward-McCann ($3.95). “Mithridates, he died old,” sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad—leaving it largely up to his readers to know who Mithradates was and ...

I am told that some people in our TikTok world believe that ancient history is irrelevant. Those folks reckon that a fraught relationship between two vast empires – extinct for many centuries – ...

Prof. Sage (Emeritus Cincinnati) tackles one of the most difficult periods in Roman history, the “Crisis of the Third Century.” This fifty-year period (c. A.D. 235-285) was characterized by chaos, ...

Sometime in 1934, a little east of Vienna, an 18- or 19-year-old Englishman named Patrick Leigh Fermor said goodbye to a car-owning friend and resumed the transcontinental trek he had determined to ...