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Sparta Reconsidered - Overview - Historical culture of Sparta
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WARRIOR PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. In fact, ancient Sparta – or Lacedaemon, as it was known in ancient Greece – was far more complex and multifaceted. Plutarch claims that "devotion to the intellect is more characteristic of Sparta than love of physical exercise.". Lindsay Wheeler calls the Spartans warrior philosophers. A quick look at the key facts:. The Spartan public educational system, the agoge, trained the mind as well as the body, and Spartans were not only literate, but admired for their...
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Battle of the Bulge
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Battle of the Bulge. Historian on the Warpath. The Battle of the Bulge. Analysis of history, monuments, and warpaths of the Battle of the Bulge. The Bastogne Mardasson Memorial. May 8, 2013. While in Luxembourg, a Belgian coworker harassed me, You’re an American and you’ve never visited Bastogne? It was true. I was visiting the Low Countries for the third time and I had zero plans to visit the famous town from the Battle of the Bulge. To redeem myself, I showed him a picture of the […]. April 26, 2013.
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Alexander’s heroic and divine nature on my middle finger
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Battle of the Bulge. Historian on the Warpath. Alexander’s heroic and divine nature on my middle finger. March 23, 2015. Among the countless tourist shops in Athens, I stumbled across a jeweler who had the perfect decoration for my finger. The jeweler made a replica of a famous coin depicting Alexander the Great on one side, or so I thought. The other side depicts Zeus. For an accessible reference on Greek myths). 2. Similarly, outside the Greek world, newly conquered regions had their own god-like heroe...
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Book Reviews
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Battle of the Bulge. Historian on the Warpath. Books I’m Reading. I read a lot of books. If something inspires me, I’ll write a review about it. If you are a publisher and you have a book you would like me to review, you can contact me at scottmanning13@gmail.com. Book Review: Caesar in the USA. May 16, 2016. Read the full article →. 8216;Agincourt’: A battle made famous by Shakespeare. November 14, 2015. Read the full article →. Book Review: Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life. March 30, 2015. MacDonald, Eve&#...
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A Case against Battlefield Preservation
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Battle of the Bulge. Historian on the Warpath. A Case against Battlefield Preservation. May 10, 2015. I have trekked battlefields dating back to the Greco-Persian Wars and made more than three dozen trips to Gettysburg, so I am avid supporter of battlefield preservation. Today, he lives in Fredericksburg, which he described as a town built around worshipping the Civil War. This was not a compliment. The Innis House at Marye’s Heights in Fredericksburg (Photograph by Dawn Manning, 2010). He went further t...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Hadrian's Wall - Guest Post
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, February 17, 2013. Hadrian's Wall - Guest Post. This article is a guest post by my friend Geoff Carter, an archaeologist who lives in England. Geoff does research in ancient wood structures and has written about the original wooden fortifications at Hadrian's Wall. I have a link to Geoff's blog on this page under My Blog List -. Hadrian and the North South Divide. It was in wooden ships, built by Celtic shipwrights i...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Edward Gibbon on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Saturday, February 25, 2012. Edward Gibbon on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Most people exposed to Roman history have heard Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The first impression made on the reader is a prose style which is stylish and easy to read, unlike most history. Example:. The first of these appears in volume one chapter 5 where he writes:. The guard acted a kingmakers for the first...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: November 2014
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Roman Assault on Carthage and the Role the Great Harbor played in it. The Third Punic War was the inevitable result of treaty that was too restrictive and a long standing feud that couldn't be mitigated. To help you understand the geography involved in this battle, I have constructed the following map which shows the city of Carthage and its critical landmarks. Posted by Mike Anderson. A cothon...
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: September 2014
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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog. Honoring the Accomplishments of Antiquity. Wednesday, September 10, 2014. Social Conflict in the Roman Republic. But ahead, in the not too distant future, stood the destruction of the Republic and no one knew it. A mere thirteen years would pass before the slide would begin. It’s an interesting story of class warfare, the quest for economic equity, and an aging political system. The timeline of those thirteen years has the following entries:. The Roman class system w...
