Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part II: Spartan Equality
This is Part II of our seven part look at Sparta (I, III, IV, V, VI, VII). Last week we took a look at our sources for Sparta and then examined the Spartan child-training system, the agoge. We found...
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Today, in part III of our seven part look at Sparta (I, II, IV, V, VI, VII) we're going to take a close look at the role of women in Spartan society, keeping in mind the Spartan social hierarchy we...
View ArticleCollections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part IV: Spartan Wealth
This week, we're looking more at what life was actually like in Sparta, this time focusing on wealth and property. Last time (here), we looked at the question of daily life for women in Sparta and...
View ArticleNew Acquisitions: Class, Status and the Early Church
This short essay is responding to a (mis)characterization made - in passing, perhaps, but unchallenged - about the sort of people in the early Christian Church in the context of a high profile...
View ArticleCollections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
This essay will hopefully be the first post in a series (II, III, IV, A) covering some of the basics of how things in the past, particularly in the ancient world, were made. This isn't a how-to guide...
View ArticleCollections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part II: Big Farms
This is the second part (I, II, III, IV, A) of our look at the basic structure of food production (particularly grains to make bread) in the pre-modern world. Last week, we began by looking at the...
View ArticleCollections: Bread, How Did they Make it? Part III: Actually Farming
As the third part (I, II, III, IV, A) of our look at the basic structure of food production in the pre-modern world (particularly farming grain to make bread) we're going to finally look at how one...
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