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History Resources

As with the list of all-purpose History threads in which most of the links below were found, this list is also incomplete. There are additional history resources on the various pages of Resources for Writers.

Ancient World

Football and Fragmentary Poetry: “These are pictures of football players with translations of ancient poetry placed underneath them.”

Tausret, the female pharaoh:

Popular Carthaginian names

Biographies of Alexander the Great

//Sughaim Sine//: Homosocial Nipple Sucking In Ancient Pagan Ireland

A 10-minute rock epic about the Battle of Nesactium, sung in contemporary Istrian slang

Cicero’s Phillipics:

Plutarch’s //Life of Antony//

Cicero's //Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished.// “Antony's grandfather was a famous orator - and Cicero's hero? Cicero wrote what was basically a fanfic featuring him.”

Cicero's Car Lot

Books by Patricia Southern: //Mark Antony: A Life// (one nonny does not suggest getting the much-too-abridged combined Antony & Cleopatra edition); //Augustus//; //Roman Britain//

//Caesar: Life of a Colossus// by Adrian Goldsworthy

"The Ambush that Changed History," about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The article draws on Peter S. Wells's //The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest// (PDF).

//Sandman//, "August" issue (originally #30), features a dark!Caesar story about Octavian. It’s part of the “Distant Mirrors” series, which also covers the French Revolution, Emperor Norton, and Haroun al-Raschid; these stories and others were later collected in the paperback Fables and Reflections.

//A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors// by Anthony Blond

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2942927-a-brief-history-of-the-private-lives-of-the-roman-emperorsMatrons of Awesome series of posts about Roman women

Fuck Yeah Alcibiades, which among other things contains 19th-c. Socrates/Alcibiades fanart

Clip from John Woo’s //Red Cliff//, which depicts the Zhuge Liang “Straw Boat Borrows Arrows” story

Byzantium

Middle Ages

15th & 16th Centuries

17th Century

18th & 19th Centuries

20th Century