Fantastical Islands from a Roman Novel
Lucian of Samosata was a second-century author writing in Roman Turkey. His best-known work is A True History, a satire of ancient historians who breathlessly repeated whatever half-baked tall tales they’d been told about foreign lands. Much as it pains me to see my beloved Herodotus so ill-treated, A True History is both funny and […]
Patrocles’ Caspian Exploration Fraud
The Hellenistic Greek geographer, government official, and military officer Patrocles conducted two voyages of exploration in the Caspian Sea. His account of what he saw had a major influence on European geographers into the Middle Ages. The only problem is that most of the important stuff he reported was flat-out wrong. How he got to […]
Eleusinian Mysteries
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PCs on the Battlefield- Caesar’s Wars (Part 3)
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Shake Up Your Campaign with Persian Perfidy!
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The Cruel, Prophetic Witch of Northern Greece
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Zany PC Schemes from Xenophon
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The Three Fates
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Beehive Tombs
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The Cannibal Conspiracy to Destroy Sparta
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Aristodemos
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