It's All Ancient History
Honor Cargill-MartinThe ancient world is not remote — it is still shaping how we live now. This is your introduction to the most word-changing stories, art, and ideas that Classics has to offer.
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Stoic advice on how to deal with the malevolent spirits which haunt your new home
Athenodorus motioned with his hand that it should wait a little and, turning back, re-applied himself to his wax-tablets and pen, writing as the ghost rattled its great, clanging chains above his head.
Athenodorus and the ghost face off in...
Was this the key to Julius Caesar's victory?
On the 10th of January 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, a shallow river that separated his province of Cisalpine Gaul from Italy. In leading his armies across it Caesar effectively declared war on the Roman state. The die, as he pu...
Drowning in a Morass of Sexual Immorality
A sentence which might describe either Ancient Rome or my doctoral thesis.
First, an apology and an explanation. Please forgive my recent absence from Substack; I was caught up in a whirl of ruinous sexual vice — though, sadly, not my own.
The Spy, the Mogul, the Wife, and the Worker
Extraordinary stories from one ancient Roman town
There’s a low arch, easy to walk past, in the wall of a Medieval building on the street running down to the great Papal Basilica in Assisi. Duck under it, and a set of steps takes you down...
Cicero vs. Mark Antony: a very Roman character assassination
How the great orator Cicero turned a piece of old gossip into a ruinous political narrative, and what that tells us about Roman culture
It is the autumn of 44 BC, six months after Julius Caesar bled out on the senate floor. The tense enten...
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Honor Cargill-Martin is an author, classicist and art historian from London. She is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Oxford. Her first non-fiction book tells the story of the scandalous Roman empress Messalina.
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