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Otranto of the East

Ancient November 26, 2023

During the summer we spent several weeks in Otranto, one of the most beautiful towns and the easternmost one in all of Italy. Here...

Hadrian’s Luxury Hideaway

Ancient November 18, 2023

One of the most-advertised half-day activities in Rome is taking a guided tour of Hadrian’s Villa and the Villa d’Este (the two sites nearly...

10 Roman Statues, Fleshed Out

Ancient October 25, 2023

Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare? His numbers, though they moved or seemed to move In marble or in bronze, lacked character. But boys and...

Your Free Forum Trivia Tour

Ancient October 20, 2023

Yesterday I decided it’s time I saw some more ancient Roman sights. After all, YOLO. I invited John to come along on the excursion...

Ten Things that Will Make You Think Even More About the Roman Empire

Ancient October 5, 2023

A TikTok meme has been trending lately where a woman asks some man in her life, “How often do you think about the Roman...

A Roman Rainbow

Ancient September 12, 2023

We’re in Rome, mainly for dentistry, but there is no shortage of less painful things to do in the Eternal City. It's always exciting...

The City of Two Seas

Ancient July 27, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, since we had a rental car for a while, I told John (the only driver between us) I had...

Carthage in a Day

Africa July 20, 2023

While we were in Tunisia, we had to take a trip to the ruins of Carthage. I wanted to see it because of a...

Pots and Peucetians

Ancient June 28, 2023

Bari has a wonderful, recently renovated museum devoted to ancient archeological finds on the Salentine peninsula (the heel of Italy’s ‘boot’). While it’s much...

Dido of Carthage, Illustrated

Africa June 22, 2023

Tunisia is a sweet place to visit, not least because of the evocative Roman ruins overlaying tantalizing traces of the even more ancient Carthaginian...

Curses on Vases: Illustrated Agamemnon

Ancient October 30, 2020

The House of Atreus is cursed. I have been making my way through Louis MacNeice's 1939 translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, which is sometimes tough...

How We Got Tragedy and The Persians

Ancient October 3, 2018

Some of the greatest works of Greek literature are by-products of a big penis festival. We tend to think of tragedy as something appalling...

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Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

Tolkien in Italy