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Book Review: Dinner With King Tut by Sam Kean
A jaunt into the contemporary world of experimental archaeology, and how its scholars are attempting to recreate cultural practices from the ancient…
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11 Books I Read in 2025, Part 1
The first half of my literary diet for this year
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Book Review: Facing Down the Furies by Edith Hall
A review of a succinct exploration of a taboo topic, viewed both through the eyes of an academic and a victim of its wrath
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Book Review: Pericles and Aspasia by Yvonne Korshak
A multifaceted novel about the relationship between Athens' greatest strategist and his favorite hetaira
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Book Review: The Birder by Lorna Robinson
A fantastical trip into a world where human death has been replaced by metamorphosis
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Book Review: Delenda Est by Poul Anderson
A review of one novella in the Time Patrol series, set in a world where Rome fell to Carthage.
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Book Review: Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
Ever since I wrote about the controversy regarding the surplus of ancient myth retellings on the market today, I felt guilty about not being able to…
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Book Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
My first ever 0-star review for this blog.
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Book Review: Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
For the past year, I have been receiving complimentary advanced copies of forthcoming books through an online broker, and I have tried to select for…
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Book Review: A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology, ed. Miri Teixeira
A review of Working Classicists' collaboration with Contubernales Books to restructure our understanding of the ancient pantheon in a way modern…
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Book Review: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney
Back in early 2020, I had received a grant to present at a major classical conference as part of a wider project we called “Leadership Through…
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Book Review: Amiculus by Travis Horseman
Looking into a recent graphic novel that retells some aspects of the end of the empire.
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