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Classical History
Tales of tragedy, ambition and heroism from the Battle of Marathon and Hannibal’s passage of the Alps to Caesar’s fateful crossing of the Rubicon.
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A Pyrrhic Victory
By Plutarch
The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.
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The Rewards of Treachery
By Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.
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St Helen Finds the True Cross
Based on ‘Elene’ by Cynewulf
The mother of the Roman Emperor goes to Jerusalem on a quest close to her heart.
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Xerxes Scourges the Hellespont
By Herodotus
The Persian King felt that a lord of his majesty should not have to take any nonsense from an overgrown river.
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Boudica
By Clay Lane
British sympathy for Roman imperial progress evaporated when officials began asset-stripping the country.
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St George the Triumphant Martyr
One of the Emperor Galerius’s most trusted generals openly defied him.
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