Politics Archive
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Byzantine Intelligence Service
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe basis on which the successful administration of the Roman Empire at its zenith was built was the cursus publicus, or the state post. This organization also made the service of intelligence more effective. -
The Seleukid Empire between Orientalism and Hellenocentrism: Writing the history of Iran in the Third and Second Centuries BCE
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsWedged between the Achaemenid and Parthian periods in Iranian history, there is the so-called Hellenistic Age, in which the lands of Greater Iran were part of the political organization known as the Seleukid Empire. -
Foreign Policy of Agesilaus
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe policy he favoured in Greece was an aggressive expansion of Spartan domination through disciplining the member states of the Peloponnesian League, such as Mantinea and Phlius, and a constant pursuit of an anti-Theban policy. -
Publius Sulpicius Rufus and the Events of 88 B.C
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsIn Roman politics, there are few figures as problematic as the tribune. These elected officials, of whom ten were elected annually, were associated throughout the late Republic with popular legislation, mob violence, and novel innovations. -
The Politico-Economic Impact of the Horse on Old World Cultures
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe politico-military and economic importance of the horse will thus be examined in the rise of the Hittite, Achaemenid, Chinese, Arab, and Mongol empires. -
Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsI argue that the creation of a profitable empire allowed the ruling elite to end their reliance on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively disenfranchised as a result. -
King Hammurabi of Babylon
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsAccording to his own testimony, Hammurabi was destined for kingship since time immemorial, when two powerful gods, Anu and Enlil, entrusted to a third god, Marduk, control over destiny, on Earth as in heaven. -
Antonia and Sejanus
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe fall of Sejanus in A.D. 31 aroused considerable controversy in the ancient sources and has also continued to do so in modern research. -
Early hellenistic Sparta: changing modes of interaction with the wider world?
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsHow absolute was Sparta's loss of hegemonic power in the mid-fourth century? How weak was Sparta as a military force at the end of the Classical period and in early Hellenistic times? -
Emperor Qin in the Afterlife
Posted on April 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe question that still puzzles scholars and archaeologists is why Emperor Qin had this army of pottery constructed.