On This Day (September 7) According to Josephus, Jerusalem finally fell to the Romans in AD 70 on the 8th of Gorpaios. As I understand it, Gorpaios is the Macedonian equivalent Continue Reading →
Cicero on books and the soul I’m a hunter by nature, but what I hunt are words and meanings in books and now on the internet. One of the things I like to pursue is the origin of p Continue Reading →
The myth of New Rome Recently a minor debate arose on the Byzans-L listserv as to whether Constantinople was originally named by Constantine ‘New Rome’ (in Greek Νέα Continue Reading →
