Well That Aged Well: Justinian II Podcast

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Too Many Wives: Disputed Imperial Parentage and the Search for An Heir Leo VI was born on 19 September 866 and as the second son of the emperor Basil I (867-886), he was crowned as junior emperor in 870 and then became direct heir to the throne on the premature death of ...

An emperor with a disputed parentage and too many wives... sounds like a perfect Byzantine storm...

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Silbannacus Augustus: An Unrecorded Emperor of Rome

Have you ever heard of the Roman emperor Silbannacus?

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Its really annoying when everything you are writing is at that 'jigsaw' stage and you are trying to fit all the pieces together, but it just feels like you are getting nowhere...

All the Constantines I had largely finished the outline of this blog by the time I found Clive Foss’ numismatic-based look at ‘Emperors called Constantine’ Revue Numismatique 161 (2005) 93-102; I was glad to find that not...

Just how many emperors Constantine have there been? Seemingly far, far more than the 'official' eleven...

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Head on a Pike: Some Coins of Maximinus Thrax In the face of repeated rebellion at the centre of his empire, Maximinus Thrax emerged from his winter quarters in Sirmium and marched on Italy, aiming to deal with the rebellious Senate and its dual ...

Someone (or 'someones') really did not like Maximinus Thrax... in not only defacing but even 're-carving' coins depicting him, they were making it known to posterity...

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Paid to Behave: The Traprain Law Hoard Those of you who have been following CANI since the earliest days of its 2014 reincarnation, you will know that the hoard of Roman silver found at Ballinrees near Coleraine in Northern Ireland and the...

The Romans did not always rely on invasion and military force to keep their tribal neighbours in check... usually, they would just pay them to behave...

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How did the Graeco-Romans receive comets?

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The Line of Augustus With the demise of Nero – the last Julio-Claudian emperor – you would be forgiven for thinking that the extinguishing of that dynasty marked the end of the bloodline of its founder, the emperor August...

While no one of his blood was in a position to succeed him, the line of Augustus continued a lot longer than you might think...

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Sentius the Centurion and Trajan's Conquest of Adiabene The otherwise unknown Sentius wrote his name into the annals of Roman history, specifically Cassius Dio LXVIII.22.3, on the backdrop of the Roman emperor Trajan's invasion and conquest of much of the ...

Some of those Roman centurions were absolute mad men...

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What did various eastern traditions think of the what comets meant?

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The Intercalary Triumphs and the Missing Month What do the Roman victories of Gaius Duilius over the Sicilians and Carthaginians in 260/259BC, Publius Cornelius Lentulus over the Ligurians in 236/235BC, Gaius Claudius Pulcher over the Istri and Li...

With only a 355-day calendar, what did the Romans to to keep the dates in contact with the seasons? Simple. They added days and even whole months...

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A Soldier and A Scholar 62 - Going Pear-Shaped For Athens? Episode 62 - After years of success, were with the failure of Inaros, the death of Cimon and the check in Boeotia the beginning of things going badly for Athens and her 'allies'...?https://mncvgk.podb...

ASAS62 - After years of success, were with the failure of Inaros, the death of Cimon and the check in Boeotia the beginning of things going badly for Athens and her 'allies'...?

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Is it ever okay to destroy historical sites for military benefit...?

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A significant moment in the early seasons of #GameofThrones is the appearance of the Red Comet, with various characters putting forward ideas of what it meant... the real world had a similarly wide view of what a comet meant...

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Some of the first truly serious late antique works I read were by the late Averil Cameron

King After Death – The Post-Mortem Reign of Tarquin the Elder I have written elsewhere of an instance of the reign of a Persian king, Shapur II, technically beginning before he was born with him being ‘crowned in utero’…https://classicalassociationni.wordpress.c...

Felled by an axe, the Roman king Tarquin the Elder lay dead. You would think his reign ended there, right...? Right?!?

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A Mixed Bag - My Chapter Quotations Not really sure why, but over the course of writing my first book, I added what I thought were interesting/appropriate quotations to the beginning of my chapters, before then also adding a couple at t...

From Arius to Zemo... from Baron Acton to Yoda... from Cicero to... what started out as a little academic garnish has grown to encompass books, letter, poems, plays, movies, board games, video games, TV shows, songs, and personal comments of all kinds...

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A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones took plenty of inspiration from the Ancients, including having a Wonder of the World 'guarding' the entrance to a harbour...

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The Curious Case of Vetranio III: Loyalism or Usurpation? But what if there was no such enmity between Constantina and Constantius? What if she was not acting as a kingmaker in her own right, but merely saw the elevation of Vetranio as a way to preserve the ...

Is it even vaguely possible for Vetranio to have been a 'loyal usurper'?

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Before the Pyramids: Neolithic Newgrange It was this writer's great good fortune to enter the Neolithic passage tomb of Newgrange and some of its surrounding environs and accompanying museum.Along with nearby Knowth, Dowth and other mounds, ...

Irish history certainly did not begin when the island came into the view of Mediterranean powers...

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Game of Thrones and Ancient History III: Burning a Princess – Shireen and Iphigenia In S05E09 "The Dance of Dragons," Game of Thrones viewers were confronted with perhaps the most heart-wrenching and harrowing scenes of the show so far as perhaps the most innocent character in the en...

In need of positive omens of a military operation? Burn a princess!

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The Curious Case of Vetranio Part II: Constantina Augusta “her pride was swollen beyond measure; she was a Fury in mortal form, incessantly adding fuel to her husband's rage, and as thirsty for human blood as he” Ammianus XIV.1.2The peculiarities of the usur...

What role might Constantina have had during the usurpation of Vetranio?

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The Bann Disc The Bann Disc was found in March 1939 by men dredging the east bank of the River Bann near Loughan Island, Co. Derry just above Loughan Graveyard. It is a small, slightly convex bronze disc that measu...

A little bit of Ancient Irish archaeology...

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The Brazen Bull: Killed by Own Creation Whether it be Marie Curie dying due to cancer caused by her radioactive discoveries, William Bullock succumbing to crush injuries caused by his own rotary printing press or most recently Stockton Rush...

Inventing a grizzly method of torture or execution is not always great for your historical reputation... or your chances of facing such a grizzly demise... particularly if you invent the Brazen Bull...

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GoTAH II: Davos, Ramsay and the Cannae Stratagem at the Battle of the Bastards In 216BC, the Italian countryside played host to the Battle of Cannae between the forces of Carthage and the legions of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. Fresh from two major victories, ...

Hannibal's Cannae Strategem made an appearance in Game of Thrones' Battle of the Bastards... although it did not go as well for Jon Snow as it did for the Carthaginian general...

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The Curious Case of Vetranio Part I: Regional Usurpation? On 18 January 350, the flag of revolt was raised at Autun in central Gaul. At a dinner party, a cadre of disgruntled (disgruntled about what exactly is another subject altogether…) military officers a...

Is it possible that the sister of a Roman emperor organised a regional usurpation to secure part of the empire for her brother...?

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Who Was Emperor Zeno and How Did He Deal with the Fall of the Western Roman Empire? https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-emperor-zeno-and-how-did-he-deal-with-the-fall-of-the-western-roman-empire/

Who was the Roman emperor in Constantinople when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, and what did he do about it?

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"Self-Administered Poisoned Arrow Wound:" The C.O.D. of John II Komnenos John II Komnenos was one of, if not the greatest of the Komnenian emperors to rule the Roman Empire. Throughout his quarter of a century on the throne of Constantinople (1118-1143), he moulded the Rom...

A Roman emperor who would not listen to his doctors after hurting himself whilst hunting...

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‘The Destruction of Aquileia’: History and Poetry In 452, the year after his massive invasion of Gaul culminated in the seemingly inconclusive Battle of Catalunian Fields, Attila the Hun invaded Italy. This strategic choice says nothing conclusive ab...

Before Venice there was Aquileia, a great city and bastion at the north-east entrance to Italy... until the Scourge of God came... a poetic lament...

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