Bret Devereaux
Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD @UNChistory. More impressive credential is that I have beaten Dark Souls.
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So I'm currently teaching a US Naval history course; I got brought on late to replace an instructor who had to drop out so I didn't have a chance to choose the textbook and I'm hon...
So this video (https://t.co/HiNsjDqnvF) of a fellow who more or less playing Minecraft in real life is interesting (and has a ton of views) but certainly looking at the comments fo...
You know, I'm not sure if I envy or pity folks with permanent appointments who get to / have to teach the same thing every year. Whereas I am all over the place; ancient history,...
@CMedina240 @Theo47102867 @WingedBookWyrm Her dissertation is available via ProQuest if you have institutional access, beyond that I'm not sure if the argument is otherwise availab...
@TilFolkvang Ok, so his standard melting process looks to be a bloomery, though I'm not sure if his iron ore is just very bad or his process is very inefficient since he's getting...
@USCivilWarPdcst @BigBupIsWatchin Well that's the thing, in the second century it doesn't really seem to matter. Cynocephelae, Thermopylae, Magnesia and Pydna - the Romans run the...
Romans, generally speaking. Parthians will also work in a pinch. https://t.co/8stCDN34So
@MilHist_Lee There's a great rundown of the strategy debate to 2002 or so by Lendon in CJ that might be worth listing (J.E. Lendon, "Primitivism and Ancient Foreign Relations" CJ 9...
In my previous thread I said that you need to think, when doing public-facing history/classics (esp. online), about how you are going to get the word out and how various platforms...
This whole thread is great so I figured I'd throw on my comparisons too. A single-author blog isn't going to get as much readership as a big reddit like @askhistorians , but of co...
I find myself wondering if one of the lessons of post-WWII interventions is that the world is sufficiently globalized that apart from brief moments of unipolarity, it is far harder...
No, but then to be fair neither was the Roman Empire, really. These 'Roman Empire at its height' maps invariably assign territory to Rome that the Romans never really controlled....