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.

God’s library: the archaeology of the earliest Christian manuscripts

There is a category of music from the late 60s called baroque rock. The most famous song is "Walk Away Renee" from the Left Banke. What are some other songs from this genre?

If the Greek phalanx formation was so effective, how did the Romans manage to overcome it?

Social Justice Isn’t Justice: Prager University

Hillsdale: Great Figures in History

Combined arms warfare in ancient Greece: from Homer to Alexander the Great and his successors

The Roman military base at Dura-Europos, Syria: an archaeological visualisation

Why is it said that the Roman Republic ended with the Gracchi?

Hippocratic oratory: the poetics of early Greek medical prose

New perspectives on power and political representation from ancient history to the present day: repertoires of representation

What made the Roman Army so powerful?

The quaestorship in the Roman Republic

Postoral Homer: orality and literacy in the Homer epic

La prière dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon à Proclus

Accommodating the individual: identity and control after Alexander

Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam

The Medicina Plinii: Latin text, translation, and commentary

Antioch II: the many faces of Antioch: intellectual exchange and religious diversity, CE 350-450

The gaze of Homer: light and vision in the Iliad

Hillsdale: Great Figures in History, Moses