Cyrus the Great

[Please be warned that this blog post contains explicit descriptions of ancient barbarian sex practices, marriage markets,  and gratuitous, nay, lurid descriptions of violence and desecration of corpses.  Not me.  Herodotus.  The Histories.]

The first of “The Great’s” in history and conqueror and ruler of the largest empire up to that point in history; the Achaemenid Dynasty. Continue Reading

The two-faced Roman god Janus – one face peers toward the past, the other the future.  Continue Reading