Tag: The God’s Wife
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Obligatory Sales Post (+ a Preview!)
I know I’ve been doing a lot of sales pushing here recently, and I promise that’ll settle down again after this week, but I’m so excited to say that my third book, Children of Actium, is live and available for purchase at the digital provider of your choice and in paperback via Amazon! Links are below,…
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History’s Heirs: The Royal House of Mauretania
Great neighbouring regions of the world, which divides the Nile,/ Swollen from black Ethiopia, divides,/ You have created common kings for both through marriage, making one race of Egyptians and Libyans./ Let the children of Kings in turn hold from their fathers a strong rule over both lands. – epigram on the occasion of the marriage…
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Field Day Part 3: The Carnegie Museums and the Pleasures of Small-Scale Egyptology
Okay, everyone, we’ve (finally, for some of you) reached the last of week of my self-guided tour of the Carnegie Museums. This week, I want to walk through the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s (CMNH) Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt. As I alluded to last week, as a science, Egyptology’s roots are deep in colonialism and…
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The Jester of Tortuga: Caesar and the Pirates
Zoot: Hey man, I can’t figure out what side we’re on. Are we with the pirates or the frog captain? Floyd Pepper: Oh, hey, man. Just play the gig. Never get involved in politics… — Muppet Treasure Island Well, folks, it’s the Ides of March, so I bet you all came here for some dank…
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Six More Weeks of Something: Prognostication and the Art of the Future in the Ancient World
“You want a prediction about the weather you’re asking the wrong Phil. I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you the rest of your life.” — Groundhog Day I wasn’t sure what this week’s entry was going to be about, but then I woke…
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Sitting Pretty: Hair, Makeup, and Jewelry in the World of The God’s Wife
“You’re not decorating a girl for a night on the town/ And I’m not a second-rate queen getting kicked with a crown.” – Eva Peron, Evita Over the summer I did an entry about clothing in the Ptolemaic/ early Roman Empire, but I thought we’d come back to personal dress again and talk about accoutrements.…
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Cue the Memes: Fact & Fiction About the Library of Alexandria
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit. [If you have a garden in your library, nothing will be lacking.] – Marcus Tullius Cicero So after two straight weeks of trying to school all of you in matters admittedly outside my wheelhouse, I thought we’d come back to something much more my speed… … and talk…
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Super Troopers: Ground Warfare in the World of The God’s Wife
I am the very model of a modern Major-Gineral / I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral – The Pirates of Penzance We shipped off into the navy last week, so this week we’ll come back ashore and talk a little about the land militaries of the late Ptolemaic/ early Roman imperial age. Personally (though I…
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Yvan Eht Nioj: Naval Warfare in the World of The God’s Wife
Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure/ Learn science, technology? – The Village People I’ve talked about a lot of the historical background surrounding The God’s Wife; from geography, to politics, to clothing. But I really haven’t addressed the military elephant in the room. So I thought this week we’d start with…
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Obligatory Black Friday Sales Post
Because some of us are stuck with Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus as a muse and not a financial patron. I promise next week I’ll get back into informative entries (I’m thinking Roman-Ptolemaic naval warfare, then good, old-fashioned land warfare). But I would be remiss going into the biggest shopping weekend of the year if…
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