Zaleucus
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To the Reader
This is a blog that I started with the intention of relating various stories that I collected over the years concerning people from the ancient world whose names have been preserved on account of the curious or otherwise interesting circumstances surrounding their lives.
Upcoming Posts
Pliny the Younger Goes Hunting - Mar. 6
Hermotimus' Revenge - Mar. 20
Curtius and the Chasm - Apr. 2
Recent Posts
- The Visual Guide to Herodotus
- An Asiatic Lion in the Loft
- The Anecdotes of Pausanias
- Praxiteles’ Masterpiece
- A Customer Complaint Letter from Mesopotamia
- A Rape on the Satyr Islands
- The Sacred Chickens of Rome
- In Defence of King Candaules
- Can Somebody Kindly Name this Painter of Exceptional Talent?
- Selected Anecdotes by Valerius Maximus
- The Locust Plagues of Mount Sipylus
- The Table of the Sun
- The Inessential Guide to Herodotus
- Ferdowsi and the Three Celebrated Poets
- A New Zaleucus to Rebuke us in the Online Age
- Saint Gregory the Great’s Sad Tale
- Herodotus on How to Catch a Nile Crocodile
- How to Make Kumis the Scythian Way
- Thamyris: The First Gay Guy According to Apollodorus
- Philitis and the Great Pyramid
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