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Welcome, this is a misc history blog, with an orientation to the sources, but not only. Check my last blog about The less famous 1st Trojan war by Heracles against Troy and king Laomedon; a research of sources on the course of the ancient mythography .... or navigate for the rest posts

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When Heracles captured Troy and killed king Laomedon; the less famous legend of the first Trojan war in context

New England at the Black Sea... an 11th c. CE colony of English exiles after the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066 CE, as narrated in the Chronicon Laudunensis

Human stories from Papyri: a complaining servant, a cheating pharmacist & a tyrannical elder

A legendary action of heroism during the Siege of Saguntum in 219 BCE, as sculpted by Agustín Querol

Reading Greek in Ammianus Marcellinus' history. Prophecies, proverbs and vocabulary...

The women from Amphissa by Alma Tadema. An ancient anti-war story

First sacred war & the sieges of Cirrha & Crissa... chemical warfare?

Anthemius, the architect of Hagia Sophia... a vengeful prankster

Depicting Devil in Christian art... from early middle ages to Dante

Delphi 279 BCE... when Apollo made the sky fall upon Gauls and Pan filled them up with terror