Odoacer giving away land to his underlings? How do we know? ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Odoacer's reign in Italy is enlightened by a document signed by the man himself... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

ASAS54 - An Athenian general returns from exile for one last hurrah... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer...

There was not just one statelet looking to upset the religious divide during the Second Islamic Fitna... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Within 50 years, the Islamic caliphate was rent into several parts and during the Second Fitna, there was almost a major reordering of the sectarian divide... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Were the Persians so desperate to have a king that they crowned a child before he was born?!? ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

In regular thoughts about the Roman Empire, what reason(s) do you come up with for its decline and fall? Is that list as long as... 210?!? ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Is Diocletian's removing himself to his palace in 305 the first instance of extended gardening leave?

Medieval scribes were not immune to massive mistakes... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

It did not take very long for there to be a heresy in the Christian Church... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

With the Christianisation of the Roman Empire, the old pagan cults started to fade... do we have know of the last Vestal? ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

NEW: Were there other potential Severan emperors? ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

When two former schoolmates - an emperor and a saint - almost comes to blows over loaves of bread ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Suspicions that a philosopher who has discovered 'new' speeches might not be telling the truth? How about you set a trap for him... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

How does a Roman emperor lose his throne and his nose only to regain both?!? Check out this entry in the Well That Aged Well podcast ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

What happens when a dispute over parentage reaches the imperial level? Suspicion and desperation for a legitimate heir... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

ASAS 53 - With the river diverted, the Athenians and their Egyptian allies are no longer in de-Nile... this expedition and rebellion is doomed... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

CAUTION! Things are about to get messy in a 'cutting off of body parts way..."! ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

Not only were popes not always meant to be celibate, they also had children... but might one of those children have succeeded his father at some point? @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social @rogueclassicist.bsky.social ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer...

In the "jigsaw puzzle" stage of writing Book VII - I have all the notes in front of me, but getting it all into order and making sense is time-consuming... It does not help that my current subject - the trial(s) of Rabirius in 63BC - is messy even before we get to my notes...

Does money retain the 'smell' of where it comes from? Vespasian did not think so... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social

Not mentioned in the written sources? Then how do we know anything about Silbannacus Augustus? ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer... @raoulmclaughlin.bsky.social

Large hoards of silver beyond the Roman frontier do not always mean the proceeds of raiding... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer...

NEW: The Real Severans V - The Fate of the 'Severan Women'... we have already seen that many of the 'Severan' women were not really Severans, but one of the Severan spouses was not even a woman... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer...

Those Roman centurions really could be mad b**tards... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer...

#Caesar Shorts of all the Roman emperors...

NEW: ASAS 52 - The Fury of Inaros III Having trouble defeating an enemy holed up on an island? Just redirect a section of the world's biggest river... Simple really... ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer...