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So Long, and Thanks…
‘Well, in the circumstances I did what any red-blooded Englishman would do. I was compelled,’ said Arthur, ‘to ignore it.’ Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy of Five, p. 755 2022 has been a rough year for any number of reasons,…
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I Launched a Book!
In 2014, I co-organized a one-day conference on Greek warfare with three fellow doctoral students, Roel Konijnendijk, Cezary Kucewicz, and Joshua Hall. Over the subsequent seven years, through various changes in content and line up, this conference evolved into the edited volume Brill’s Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx. On Tuesday 22nd February,…
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Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
At an uncertain point in humanity’s future, the world has come to be ruled by the Patternists, organized into houses led by their strongest under the dominance of the Patternmaster. Weaker Patternists may be journeymen and apprentices in a house, or they may be independent wanderers between houses, or they may be enslaved as ‘outsiders’…
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The Power of Names in ‘Dark Age’ Greece
With Ancient World Magazine coming to an end, I have decided to sporadically post the fragments of unfinished pieces I had intended to write for AWM here. Some of these will be ideas that I couldn’t take anywhere, most will be things that I simply did not have the time to finish. Sometimes, what happens…
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage and read by Bill Wallis
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown My rating: 5 of 5 stars As Arthur and his allies celebrate Christmas at Camelot, a Green Knight arrives offering a challenge: any knight may come forth and strike him, but they must receive an identical strike from him a year and a day later. Arthur’s noble…
Writing in the Dark 