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.

The ties that bind. Ancient politics and network research

Prager University Book Talk Plato, Symposium

Ästhetische Monsterpolitiken. Das Monströse als Figuration des eingeschlossenen Ausgeschlossenen

The phantom image: seeing the dead in ancient Rome

The Edinburgh companion to Sidonius Apollinaris

CHRISTIANS & CRITICAL RACE THEORY

Transforming sacred spaces: new approaches to Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture from the transitional period

Herodotus and the question why

Liddell and Scott: the history, methodology, and languages of the world's leading lexicon of Ancient Greek

Rethinking Athens before the Persian wars : proceedings of the international workshop at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Animal kingdom of heaven: anthropozoological aspects in the late antique world

Adressat und Adressant in antiken Briefen: Rollenkonfigurationen und kommunikative Strategien in griechischer und römischer Epistolographie

Italy's economic revolution: integration and economy in Republican Italy

The discourse of kingship in classical Greece

Is My School District a Bully?

Von Pflanzen und Pflichten: Zum naturalistischen Ursprung des stoischen kathekon

Man of High Empire. The Life of Pliny the Younger

Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature

America’s Most Neglected Minority: Germans

Were the Ancient Greeks and Romans White?