The Blogographer
@blogographer1.bsky.social
Not a Thucydidean 'Prose Chronicler'
https://ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer/blog
Ancient History anecdotes and asides of varying length, differing subject and broad time-period - Greeks, Romans, and more. Also the Bluesky home of #HaikuHistory
https://ptcrawford.wixsite.com/blogographer/blog
Ancient History anecdotes and asides of varying length, differing subject and broad time-period - Greeks, Romans, and more. Also the Bluesky home of #HaikuHistory
Might they have done enough damage to the Huns, even in ultimate defeat, to make the steppe horseman easy pickings for the Romans? 3/3
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Might they have done enough damage to the Huns, even in ultimate defeat, to make the steppe horseman easy pickings for the Romans? 3/3
How would an intact Tervingi 'statelet' and a largely unified Quadi have coped with the influx of Greuthungi refugees? And then the Huns themselves? 2/3
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How would an intact Tervingi 'statelet' and a largely unified Quadi have coped with the influx of Greuthungi refugees? And then the Huns themselves? 2/3
Did two consecutive Roman ravagings of barbarian land - Valens of the Tervingi in 369 and Valentinian I of the Quadi in 375 - exacerbate the impact of the arrival of the Huns? 1/3
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Did two consecutive Roman ravagings of barbarian land - Valens of the Tervingi in 369 and Valentinian I of the Quadi in 375 - exacerbate the impact of the arrival of the Huns? 1/3
Is Diocletian's removing himself to his palace in 305 the first instance of extended gardening leave?
October 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Is Diocletian's removing himself to his palace in 305 the first instance of extended gardening leave?
In the "jigsaw puzzle" stage of writing Book VII - I have all the notes in front of me, but getting it all into order and making sense is time-consuming...
It does not help that my current subject - the trial(s) of Rabirius in 63BC - is messy even before we get to my notes...
It does not help that my current subject - the trial(s) of Rabirius in 63BC - is messy even before we get to my notes...
October 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In the "jigsaw puzzle" stage of writing Book VII - I have all the notes in front of me, but getting it all into order and making sense is time-consuming...
It does not help that my current subject - the trial(s) of Rabirius in 63BC - is messy even before we get to my notes...
It does not help that my current subject - the trial(s) of Rabirius in 63BC - is messy even before we get to my notes...
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Great Theoderic
After thirty three year reign
Dies at Ravenna
From hostage to king
Dies on Italian throne
Three decades of rule
After thirty three year reign
Dies at Ravenna
From hostage to king
Dies on Italian throne
Three decades of rule
August 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Great Theoderic
After thirty three year reign
Dies at Ravenna
From hostage to king
Dies on Italian throne
Three decades of rule
After thirty three year reign
Dies at Ravenna
From hostage to king
Dies on Italian throne
Three decades of rule
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