history

a petition to preserve Spartan dignity in misfortune takes us back to Solon's warning

an answer, perhaps the answer, to "what we fight for?", "what we die for?" and, most importantly "what we live for?"

how could he lead so many victorious campaigns and cover such vast territories if the subreddit r/CampingGear had not come to existence yet?

a sword is perpetually suspended over our head. We dread our very guards, we distrust our companions.

vanity sometimes makes you stumble upon beautiful things.

Yesterday, December 24 at 11:48 at night, I finished reading the third and last volume of Byzantium. It is a story whose melancholy increases as we flip the pages. In this last volume, the Empire is like a bonfire (or a pyre?) whose refulgence is still intense and bright

This is volume II of III of the history of the Byzantine Empire. This volume, unlike the first one, covers a relatively short period of time: from the year 800 with the coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor of the Western Empire to Easter Day 1081, when Alexius Comnenus takes the

“Our civilization has never adequately acknowledged the debt it owes to the Empire of the East”, writes John Julius Norwich in the introduction of this magnificent book. In very rare occasions, historians rise to the level of the history they are narrating. This is one of those occasions. We jump