Amazons: Myth, Fear, and the Long Memory of Warrior Women

Armed Amazon, her shield decorates a Gorgon head; Tondo of Attic red-figure kylix, c. 500 BCE, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Berlin (Public domain)

The Amazons stride through ancient myth with spears, bows, and a reputation that unsettled the ancient world. These warrior women, said to live beyond the edges of the known Greek world near […]

Women's history? Or herstory?

Photo of women history graduates

‘The Monstrous Regiment of Women’

Wikipedia defines women’s history as follows, ‘Women’s history is the study of the role that women have played in history, together with the methods needed to study women. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman’s rights throughout recorded history, the examination of individual […]

When an amoral populist takes power

Man's face and covers of INSURRECTIO and RETALIO

Caius Tellus

The morning after the power grab by Caius Tellus on the night of fires in INSURRECTIO, people woke to find the proclamation below. The new regime had pinned it on noticeboards, on the doors of public buildings and in the forum in Roma Nova city.

By order of First Consul Caius […]