Daily Archives: February 28th, 2011

Barack Obama and the Lessons of Antiquity: Bruce Thornton

In one of the keynote addresses from the Hauenstein Center conference, Bruce Thornton applies lessons taken from the reign of Philip II of Macedon:  

Emperors of Rome: Vespasian

Adrian Murdoch brings the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ to an end with a rather competent fellow: Vespasian: Emperors of Rome

This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas martias

pridie kalendas martias Amburbium — a ‘moveable feast’ which may or may not have actually been held on this day, but does seem to have happened near the end of February. A sacrificial procession was led around the boundaries of the city as a rite of purification. 509 B.C. — During a major attempt by [...]