Blog Smith

Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero. How to think about God: an ancient guide for believers and nonbelievers

Galen’s treatise ‘De indolentia’ in context. A tale of resilience

Language and authority in De lingua Latina: Varro’s guide to being Roman

Cicero: making of a Roman classic

Joining the Dots. Plato’s Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean

Antiques uchronies: quand les Grecs et Romains imaginent des histoires alternatives

Critics, compilers, and commentators: an introduction to Roman philology, 200 BCE-800 CE

Material approaches to Roman magic: occult objects and supernatural substances

Terence: the girl from Andros

Women, children and the family in Palmyra

What makes Emperor Marcus Aurelius so great?

Mortal and divine in early Greek epistemology: a study of Hesiod, Xenophanes, and Parmenides

Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence: médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome

Daily Life in Ancient Rome. A Sourcebook

How did the economy of Ancient Rome work?

Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Decoration and display in Rome’s imperial thermae: messages of power and their popular reception at the Baths of Caracalla

The boundless sea: writing Mediterranean history

Dura-Europos. Archaeological histories

Author unknown: the power of anonymity in ancient Rome