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This is Bonus 1, for Episode 48.  I strongly suggest you listen to this.  Vicky Leon makes the strongest argument that social media existed in the Ancient World.  The comparisons are riveting.   

This is Bonus 2, for Episode 48.  Vicky Leon discusses her book WORKING IX to V.   Watching sword and sandal movies you might think there were just slaves, soldiers and Christians in the ancient world.    The fact is…people had to make living.  What would you do to survive in the Ancient World?  Wh…

Rob Cain interviewed Alison Morton, author of the thriller and the altenative history book INCEPTIO.  Synopsis: Imagine a Christian Emperor forcing  pagans to convert, and those that refuse decide to migrate to a new homeland in Europe.  Now in the 21st Century a NEW ROME, a ROMA NOVA has come into…

Rob Cain interviews Helen King on Medicine in the Ancient World.   Helen King is a British classical scholar and advocate for the medical humanities. She is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. She was previously Professor of the History of Classical Medicine and Head of …

Dr. Gregory Aldrete provides his take on "Why the Classics Matter".    CHECK OUT THE BLOG AT: https://ancientromerefocused.org/

The observations of Alicia Aldrete in recreating the cloth armor of the ancients.    CHECK OUT THE BLOG AT: https://ancientromerefocused.org/

An interview with Dr. Gregory Aldrete on how the Ancients created 'cloth' armor as protection against arrows.   2:30 - 8:15 Contributor Matthew Leigh Embleton gives us his hip-pocket lecture on the God Mithras.  8:15 - 21:30  Rob Cain provides a personal essay on DRAGON SKIN.  21:30 - 39:45 R…

Rob Cain interviews Steven Fine, historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World.   Dr. Fine is professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York, director of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration project and of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies.  Visit Professor Fine's web…